South Africa: Report Identifies Role-Players in South African Wildlife Crime

Game rangers, vets, casino staff, construction and transport industry workers, as well as customs and other government officials, have been identified as role-players in the… Read more »

Africa: Indigenous People at Centre of Protecting Ecosystems #AfricaClimateCrisis

Indigenous peoples are increasingly being acknowledged for their protection and management of land, water bodies and wildlife.  As their culture and livelihood are intimately… Read more »

Africa: More Protected Areas Not the Solution to Climate Change - Survival International

While humanity is scrambling to prevent the cascading effects of climate change, a new global plan to turn 30% of the earth into environmental sanctuaries by 2030 is not the… Read more »

Botswana: Dozens of Endangered Vultures Found Dead

Authorities and conservationists have launched a probe after at least 40 endangered vultures have been killed in Botswana, the latest victims of mass poisoning in the Southern… Read more »

Kenya: How This Kenya Fishing Co-Op Went From Treading Water to Riding Waves

When Etabo Lopeyo Lotonia was attacked by a crocodile while fishing in Lake Turkana, members of his social enterprise group put aside all the day's tasks to ensure he received… Read more »

Botswana: Raffled Elephant Hunts Backfire on Community - Conservationists

Unethical hunting has exposed a community to dangerous, aggressive elephants rather than solving Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) Read more »

Africa: Taking the Elephant out of the Room

The overwhelming message from a global conference on elephants in captivity, hosted in Hermanus on September 6, was that elephants belong in the wild. Given what we know about who… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Popular Lion Seduli Killed by Hunters on World Lion Day

A male lion, that was popular with photographers, has been shot by trophy hunters on the outskirts of Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, Captured in Africa Foundation announced on… Read more »

South Africa: Phalaborwa Residents on Alert After 14 Lions Escape Kruger Park

Residents of Phalaborwa have been warned to be on the alert after 14 lions escaped from the Kruger National Park on Thursday, News24 reports. Read more »

Africa: Fighting for Biodiversity, One Plant At A Time

A small group of people are gathering with spades, buckets and plants at a local wetlands on a sunny autumn morning in Cape Town, South Africa. They're here to help the Princess… Read more »

Africa: 'We Need Development That is Good for People AND Good for the Planet'

allAfrica's Melissa Britz spoke with an expert on the state of our planet's biodiversity and what we can do about it. Belinda Reyers, is a Professor of Sustainability Science at… Read more »

Africa: What You Need to Know About the Threats to Life on Our Planet

Humans are putting the survival of a million species on the line. Read more »

Kenya: UK Photographer Captures Pictures of Elusive Black Leopard

A wildlife photographer from the United Kingdom has captured images of a black leopard in Kenya. Read more »

Africa: Continent's Biodiversity Crisis - A Call to Action

Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has called on his fellow African leaders to take action to tackle the current biodiversity crisis facing the continent and do more… Read more »

Egypt: A Case of Donkeys Earning Their Stripes? - Photos of 'Fake Zebras' Go Viral

Cairo's International Garden municipal park has faced criticism after photographs of one of its zebra exhibits went viral, Snopes reports. Egyptian student Mahmoud Sarhan shared… Read more »

South Africa: Shocking Video Shows Fishermen Laughing as They Beat, Stab Seal Pup

Graphic cell phone video footage circulating on social media shows a seal pup being beaten by a pair of fisherman, HeraldLive reports. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Poachers Wield Cyanide as New Weapon Against Elephants

The poaching of elephants on the continent has dramatically increased, with poachers increasingly turning to poison instead of using their noisy rifles as police and park rangers… Read more »

Botswana: Could Mining Help Conserve Okavango Delta?

Understandably, the mining industry is not perceived as a bastion of environmental preservation. That many of the world's minerals and hydrocarbons are found in pristine… Read more »

Namibia: No Survivors in Mozambique Airlines Crash

Namibian officials searching for a missing Mozambique Airlines plane have located the wreckage but found no survivors. Most of the 27 passengers were Mozambicans and Angolans… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Official Flags Poaching As Security Threat

The number of elephants alive today is the smallest number ever recorded. A new surge of slaughter is, according to wildlife experts, worse than the mass killings of the 1970s and… Read more »

Africa: Elephants Under Grave Threat

Conservationists warn that unless action is taken soon, Africa's iconic herds of elephants could disappear from the landscape. Read more »

Kenya: Operation Hirola - Saving Africa's Rarest Antelope

While the world focuses on the African Union effort to oust Al Shabaab militants from Somalia, another operation is quietly plugging away along the country's southern border with… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: New Monkey Species Identified in DRC

Scientific journal Plos One has published a paper in which scientists describe a new species of monkey they found living in the remote forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo.… Read more »

Africa: Conservation Should Be Major U.S.-Africa Policy Issue, Report Says

Nicholas P. Lapham, Vice President for Policy at Conservation International, joined other experts in making recommendations for U.S.-Africa policy in a Center for Strategic and… Read more »

Africa: Community Involvement Necessary For Sustainable Tourism, Say Experts

"Before, we just posed for pictures and let the tourists go. Then we said, 'Wait a minute! We are getting very little benefits from tourism activities,'" says Paramount Chief… Read more »