The last official sighting of the Voeltzkow’s chameleon (Furcifer voeltzkowi) was in 1913 in Madagascar, earning it a spot on the Top 25 Most Wanted taxon in Global Wildlife Conservation’s Search for Lost Species initiative.

There are an estimated 12,000 captive lions in the country, while fewer than 10,000 wild lions roam the continent.

Just 35 minutes from Pretoria you will find Gauteng’s first and only free-roaming Big 5 game reserve open to the public – Dinokeng Game Reserve.

hen watching any animal in Africa smaller than a rhino approach the water’s edge, there is an almost palpable sense of terror to their body language.

Gaborone — Botswana may have found a solution to its elephant overpopulation: it’s going to encourage some of them to leave the country.

“I just wanted to send my first-born child to school so that he could get an education and be different from me. I wanted him to have the opportunity which I was denied as a child.”