Human–elephant conflict is already a major conservation and livelihood challenge across southern Africa.

South Africa’s free-roaming cheetah population is much smaller than previously thought, according to the first coordinated national census of the species living outside protected areas.

The North West MEC stayed away, key reports remained hidden and MPs were given no costs or deadlines for a plan that could result in nearly 1,000 elephants being culled in Madikwe. What is the province trying to hide?

Alion’s roar or hyena’s whoop are considered “iconic”. But the song of the jackal is one of the wild’s most hauntingly beautiful sounds, easily on par with spine-tingling wolf howls in other parts of the world. 

When an elephant wandered out of South Africa’s Kruger National Park into the nearby village of Matsulu on 10 February 2024, hundreds of people gathered around and chased it.

For a long while, it was assumed that only humans have personalities or can exercise self-control. Now, biologists are beginning to discover that birds and other wild animals share these traits with humans.