Zimbabwe is re-introducing rhinos to its second biggest wildlife park Gonarezhou in the south of the country...
MacDonald Dzirutwe 13 May 2021
Cabinet has approved the publication of the Green Paper on Marriages for public consultation...
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the French Development Agency has launched a new 3.5 million Euro project to improve sustainable wildlife management and food security in the world's largest terrestrial transfrontier conservation area...
The finalists in this year's Rhino Conservation Awards have been announced, with the winners to be celebrated on 31 July, coinciding with World Ranger Day...
The virtual safaris include video footage of actual sightings, as well as some of the exhilarating encounters experienced by its game rangers on patrol...
Conservationists don't always agree about the best ways to reinforce the protection of nature. Debates about it can become confrontational...
Mucha Mkono, Jason I. Ransom, Katarzyna Nowak and Patrick O. Onyango 7 Jan 2020
Successful implementation of the land reform programme has the potential to accelerate the growth of the tourism sector by deflating simmering fears of wanton land grabs...
Peter Setou 4 Oct 2019
The Green Building Council of South Africa has awarded the V&A Waterfront's Victoria Wharf Shopping Centre a five-star Green Star - Existing Building Performance v1 rating...
President Mokgweetsi Masisi of Botswana categorically denies that his government would ever cull elephants, contradicting the Parliamentary Report proposing culling...
Dr Louise de Waal 17 May 2019
By several accounts, 2018 has been a great year for community-based conservation in Tanzania...
Jevgeniy Bluwstein, Jens Friis Lund & Peadar Breho 2 Nov 2018
The Institute of Information Technology Professionals SA (IITPSA) has named the finalists for the 2018 President's Awards...
The conservation of South Africa's biodiversity is a critical component in securing the future of tourism, an industry many South Africans depend on for their livelihood...
Higher densities of giraffes and dik-diks have been recorded and participating villages are receiving a direct share of income from wildlife tourism...
Derek E. Lee 2 Mar 2018
The transformation of Victoria Falls to a modern tourist resort has started taking shape with the company formed to drive the process now seeking technical expertise to craft a tourism investment and development plan...
The number of rhinos poached in South Africa in 2017 was lower than 2016's, according to South African Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa...
Keith Somerville 12 Feb 2018
The animals won't travel two-by-two, but thousands of safari stalwarts will soon begin their journeys from Zimbabwe to Mozambique in one of Africa's largest ever wildlife transfers...
A bizarre story has recently come out of Zimbabwe. Grace Mugabe, the politically powerful wife of the ageing president Robert Mugabe, has come up with a plan to settle a debt to China with 35 young elephants, eight lions, 12 hyenas and a giraffe...
Keith Somerville 9 Jan 2017
The first Cape Buffalo conceived through IVF was unveiled recently by Embryo Plus...
The fact that CITES' 12-day global gathering is being held in the Southern African region is the best opportunity yet for the wider conservation community to free itself from the eco-colonialism that has taken hold of it...
Eugene Lapointe 15 Sep 2016
Wildlife authorities in Zimbabwe have begun dehorning the country's 700 adult rhinos to curb rampant poaching, a conservation group said on Tuesday, 30 August...
Kwantu Private Game Reserve launched the Nyathi research scholarship programme which seeks to promote responsible wildlife conservation...
The MyPlanet Rhino Fund recently allocated R1.385m in funding towards rhino conservation causes across the country that vary from rhino protection and monitoring to saving and raising rhino orphans...
A golf tournament, coordinated and sponsored by Africa Albida Tourism, has raised $30,000 for the Victoria Falls Anti Poaching Unit...
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Life on our over-populated planet is undergoing such stress, that we risk increasing disconnection from the natural world on which our survival ultimately depends...
Roger Metcalfe 5 Oct 2015
The illegal hunt of Cecil, Zimbabwe's famous lion has focused the spotlight on the unethical practices within the hunting industry as more than 400,000 people have signed a global online Avaaz petition, calling for the US and Europe to ban the import of hunting trophies...
The full Cannes Lions Outdoor shortlist has been released, with five South African agencies on the list! The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony tomorrow evening...
The full Cannes Lions Press shortlist has been released, with 6 SA agencies cracking the nod! The winners to be announced at an awards ceremony tonight...
Roelof Bezuidenhout reacts to a recent Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management (CPW) fact sheet dealing with human impact on wildlife and its ecological fallout...
Roelof Bezuidenhout 7 Jan 2015
Environmental Resources Management (ERM), a global sustainability consultancy, has designed a bespoke smartphone app for easy use, to assist low-literate and non-literate village scouts to record elephant movement and poaching activities in Tanzania...
The Amarula Trust is now complementing the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) elephant behaviour programme by backing a Botswana-based multi-disciplinary project that looks at how elephants and people interact outside of protected areas.
The Cape of Good Hope SPCA opened its first short-term wildlife rehabilitation centre in May, and can now offer 24-hour emergency service and short term care, all year long, to animals in need.
Lyndon Jaftha 25 May 2012
The South China tiger is the rarest of five extant tiger subspecies. It is at best extremely rare and might well be extinct in the wild, PRNewswire reports via MarketWatch. Captive facilities in China house 82 individuals and the rewilding centre in South Africa has 9 individuals.
The Parks and Wildlife Management Authority of Zimbabwe plans to produce biltong from elephant meat to sell in retail outlets throughout the country "as part of sustainable utilisation of the animals," the Herald online said recently.