South Africa Wildlife

The internet is brought to tears as 6-month-old elephant orphan, Phabeni, is taken under the protective wing...

The team of young marine scientists, departed in February on a two-week multi-institutional and multidisciplinary offshore ...

Environment, Forestry and Fisheries on rhino poaching decreases by more than half in the first half of 2020...

Snake bites. Two words with the ability to destroy pretty much any experience in the bush. And let’s be honest, as much as we’d...

Madikwe: big skies, wide open plains the meeting of Bushveld and Kalahari and all the mercurial diversity this entails...

Bringing some much needed good news to these uncertain times, international wildlife charity Born Free is delighted to announce...

Many travellers have been inspired to adventure into Africa by the renowned movie, Gorillas in the Mist, showcasing...

An African wildlife safari is surely on most travel bucket lists for 2015. To get round to ticking this one off, you don’t need...

Last year the bits and pieces of protected wilderness along the Garden Route were gathered together into the third most popular destination...

This year’s Wine on the River festival in Robertson was a great success, showing that wine tourism is growing as healthily...

We are spoilt for choice in Southern Africa when it comes to picking safari destinations that offer visitors the opportunity...

The Chobe National Park is the third largest conservation area in Botswana, covering an enormous area of approximately...

Travel bloggers, Jeff and Kerryn, from Pass The Map caught their first glimpse of the Victoria Falls out of an airplane window...

Situated 400km off the coast of East Africa, Madagascar is roughly two and a half times the size of Great Britain...

After many years of being in the shadows, the remote Luambe National Park in Zambia’s wonderful Luangwa Valley is about...

Revel in an exclusive retreat at the new Pafuri Border Camp...

There are many different ways to experience and enjoy South Africa’s world-famous safari destination, the Kruger National Park...

The Magaliesberg, which is right here on our doorstep is the ideal hiking destination - obviously one's main concern when...

Boat safaris are a must when you visit the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania...

Of course, everyone who thinks of travelling to South Africa wants to visit the world famous Kruger National Park and Cape Town...

Out of the six sites world-wide where Cape gannets breed, Bird Island is the only breeding site that is easily accessed by the...

Popular tourist destinations in Botswana are only a small piece of what the country has to offer. Botswana is home to a treasure

New surveys and estimates suggest that the lion has disappeared from about 80% of its African range – even more alarming...

Head 900km north-east of Chad’s capital, N’Djamena, and you’ll discover the wondrous Ennedi Plateau...

When you find out that Swaziland is the smallest country in Africa you probably wonder what on earth you could find to do there...

In today’s high-tech world, it’s often the simplest solutions that turn out to be best – and an innovative project using...

This is not just another pangolin rescue story. This is a story of compassion and hope, a story of trans-boundary teamwork...

I’ve learnt through prior experience to never read one of Darrel Bristow-Bovey’s Getaway columns in public spaces...

The picture that usually springs to mind of an African safari is the quintessential game vehicle roaming across sweeping plains...

While out repairing roads, our ranger team came across some fresh digging in a termite mound, which we assumed to be the work...

Located in Naivasha in Kenya, Hell’s Gate National Park is home to a variety of wildlife, flora and over 100 species of birds...

Rats sniff out 13,274 landmines in Mozambique. Minister Oldemiro Júlio Margues Baloi Minister of Foreign Affairs, will declare...

The Kafue National Park is so often overlooked, but tourists are finally starting to see what all the fuss is about. And...

A healthy ecotourism sector is vital if we are to slow the rate of habitat degradation, says Ian Michler - and highlights a ...

However, if the poaching epidemic continues at its current rate we will almost certainly see the demise of the African elephant...

Our magazine editor tests the new iTrack Southern Africa app, and finds it’s not only good at identifying wildlife...

What is going on beneath the surface of African waters? Relatively little is known about the distribution of freshwater fish...

If you are considering a safari to the Masai Mara or the Serengeti, or you have seen the Great Migration but want to go again...

Limpopo-Lipadi Private Game Reserve has recently been blessed with a litter of 12 wild dog pups. The puppies were first seen...

It happens in seconds. Tusks turn towards the sky and the roughly 27,000lb, 13 foot tall elephant stops, scuttles backwards...

This year, I’ve had some pretty hair-raising, heart pounding, adrenaline-filled experiences while catching snakes. Photos ...

Kruger’s hides put you at the heart of the action as birds and wildlife seek out water and do their best to avoid becoming prey...

It was early morning in December and we were on the look out for a leopard in the Kruger National Park...

See Kevin Richardson with the lions in his animal sanctuary - playing soccer and just interacting.

“There’s a lone gazelle up ahead,” said Patrick, our guide through the Maasai Mara National Park. We were watching a pregnant...

At the foot of the Lebombo mountains, just south of Swaziland, lies a destination that not only resembles Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba..

Kruger's private concessions certainly don’t come cheap, but do offer memories money can't buy...

10 hours of spectacular killer whale action were enjoyed on 26 March 2015 in False Bay! For the past week I have been working...

One day in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve I came across some members of the Sunday Pan lion pride at their namesake...

An Afrikaans language film might be one of the best ways to address South Africa’s rhino poaching crisis...

As I lay in my bed in my lodge in Bwindi, looking through the black of the night sky, I could see red explosions of color...

After we had spent an extravagant amount of time with two golden-maned lions and their dangerously bloated buffalo carcass on...

Bangweulu Wetlands, located in Zambia, is managed by African Parks and home to 83 species of fish along with a unique array...

The SAB Foundation has named local innovation, Bee-Pak™, a compact bee farming system, as the R1-million prize winner in its...

South Luangwa is not as widely-known as the likes of Kruger or Etosha, nor is it as accessible (by road at least). But before...

In July I led a photo tour in southern Africa, we enjoyed numerous leopard encounters, lions and elephants at close range and...

There is something enchanting about a road straight through a forest. The green draws tight at either end, simultaneously ...

One of the keys to being an independent leopard is the ability to catch sufficient prey to be able to keep yourself going. This...

Over the last year I’ve spent the majority of my time doing walking safaris. The general aim is to get closer to the bush and...

Many stories have been written on the Maasai Mara describing how incredible it is. The incredible wildebeest migration as one...

These wild walking trails will bring you close enough to touch and smell the finer details of the bush.

On a cloudy day in the Northern Sabi Sands we came across a hyena. As we followed it another one appeared. They started chasing...

I am a political conservation artist, originally from South Africa but now based in beautiful Betws-y-Coed, North Wales. This...

So many people I know have visited South Africa’s Kruger National Park only to go home somehow feeling cheated and disappointed.

Despite being top dog when it comes to hunting, the wild dog faces an uncertain future. Visitors to Kruger can help with resear...

In northern Zululand, uMkhuze Game Reserve's ongoing war against poaching has been long and hard, but against all odds it has ...

My three week road trip around South Africa, ending in Kruger National Park reaffirmed that Kruger still holds a special place ..

We recently had the opportunity to visit two extraordinary places in Botswana, the Moremi Game Reserve and Chobe National Park.

Barkie found protection and love in the doting hands of the N/a’an ku sê team. Gorgeous photos of this baby aardvaark.

Choose from the best places for your next safari in Botswana.

There's nothing to beat escaping to the bush and being surrounded by nature, game and birdlife. Here's our selection of ten bush..

I saw my first group of killer whales near Bird Island in Algoa Bay on 20 February 1999. It was a group of four (three adults ...

Dale Morris swallows his fear (and a handful of seasickness tablets) and visits Mossel Bay, where a remarkable team of marine ...

After our unforgettable experience during May 2013, we decided to return to Gonarezhou National Park in the south-eastern part...

John Hanks and Ian Michler are calling for a more reasoned look at hunting in Africa - and the growing opposition to it ....

With perhaps as few as 5 000 individuals left in the wild (although we're really not sure), bonobos Pan paniscus face the very ...

'I would be quite happy to walk down one of my local alleyways in broad daylight,' says science editor Tim Jackson. 'But would ...

While the poaching of rhinos and elephants continues to escalate across Africa, the continent's political leaders continue to ...

Vultures are not, to put it gently, near the top of many safari-goers 'must-see' lists. Neither handsome nor fully fledged ...

Exquisite birdlife, thermal springs and a brand new hide, there's more to Swaziland's Big Game Parks than their famed close ...

An elephant is an elephant - or could it be a savanna elephant or a forest elephant? It's not just a question of the name, but ...

As Africa Geographic marks 20 years of reporting on environmental and conservation issues throughout Africa, Ian Michler ...

A major report on the status of Africa's lions has raised eyebrows - and in some quarters, hackles - as much for its proposed ...

The recent decision by the governments of Botswana and Zambia to halt trophy hunting has been praised in some conservation ...

There are those who consider the environmental organisation Greenpeace and its Rainbow Warrior ships to be run by lentil-eating...

The dwindling African elephant population due to poaching and corruption and the fight against ivory trade - a special report ...

You come close to confronting what it means to be human in the Central African jungle. Forget the Big Five - tracking mountain ...

Our headlights sent bright beams of light into the ink-black expanse of the night, illuminating scuttling crabs darting sideway...

Out there in the watery blue beyond are whole communities linked to the Earth's cycles, which we're only just beginning to ...

These open-air dining opportunities make for memorable meals. Nature lovers know that good food tastes even better out of doors!

What does a rock hyrax have in common with Mick Jagger? They're both singers, of course. Whereas Jagger sings to entertain, ...

Vultures are reputed to be among the avian world's best flyers, but it's a reputation that merits a little closer scrutiny.

Having recently walked and pedalled through the Mozambican provinces that border the Kruger National Park, Ian Michler has ...

Mercilessly hunted for sport and for their ivory until their very existence was rumoured to be a myth, the elephants of north ...

Living up to its name, the Tracks of Giants expedition spent some time with the Botswana-based Elephants Without Borders NGO ...

September this year will see the beginning of an exciting new chapter in the proud history of our company. Africa Geographic ...

Mother elephant rescues baby from drowning in a waterhole and then gets stuck herself. Letaba, Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Watch hippos have a set to at the Sunset Dam in Kruger National Park, South Africa

Twelve years ago, Edward Norton - known to many of us as the star of The Illusionist, 25th Hour, Fight Club and American ...

Ol Pejeta Conservancy is the only place in the world where you'll find northern white rhinos in the wild. Just four survive ...

Ecotourism is almost non-existent in the Republic of Congo. According to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation, Euro ...

Fishermen have been pointing fingers at seals for decades, accusing them of 'stealing' the fish their livelihoods are based on ...

In late March, the rhino world was a-twitter with the news that the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) would be managing...

Veteran of a previous 'rhino war', Dr Ian Player has a special connection with these charismatic animals and is following ...

In Zambia's newest national park, on the outskirts of its capital Lusaka, live more than 200 sable antelope, Coralled in ...

Ride the rhino is an annual mountain bike stage race held in aid of the dwindling and endangered Renosterveld in the Western ...

Creating an accurate map of Africa's protected areas was no small undertaking, but the MAPA Project achieved just that. Now it ...

It’s well known that one of South Africa’s treasures is its wildlife, and like any treasure it attracts a certain kind of person

Humans have been domesticating animals tor almost as long as they have been in existence, and they are still doing it. But, ...

Ian Michler decides that it’s time to confront the elephant in the room. If you are at all interested in wildlife conservation ...

2020. Dit is die jaar waarin die laaste wilde leeus van Afrika kan uitsterf tensy daar dringend ingegryp word ...

Southern Africa has some of the finest wildlife parks in the world. Getaway has rounded up the top 21 parks .....

Combine heritage, mystical scenery, animals and birding when you visit this park in Limpopo.

On a map of northern Botswana, Moremi Game Reserve perches like a skewed nucleus in the watery cell of the Okavango Delta...

The Central Kalahari Park is Botswana's largest game reserve (52800 square kilometres). This is the wild, unforgiving heart...

The Namib-Naukluft National Park covers nearly 50000 square kilometres - more than two-and-a-half times....

Chobe National Park has one of the greatest concentrations of game in Africa. If you are seeking the ultimate African wildlife experience ....

On the border of South Africa and Namibia is a park that could be mistaken for the end of the world...

The largest land mammal shares an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish and biggest marine mammal in iSimangaliso Wetland Park...

Hluhluwe-Imfolozi has a long and chequered history. Once the exclusive hunting preserve of Zulu kings, the land was protected before any formal conservation existed...

This is a bay for all seasons with a history longer than memory and a sense of the spectacular....

Table Mountain stands guard over a national park extending from Signal Hill to the hook of Cape Point...

Secrets beyond the Crystal Cave. Somewhere between the Free State's endless mealie fields and the serrated peaks of the...

Up until fairly recently, graceful, cheeky mountain zebras were the undisputed lords of this beautiful Karoo park near Cradock...

Remember the days when one group member's bad behaviour or failure to comply with a rule caused an entire group to suffer the...

Space glorious space...If you'd been standing anywhere in the Karoo National Park a few hundred million years ago, you'd be drowning...

The statistics are by now all-too familiar: 333 rhinos killed in South Africa in 2010, poached for their horns...

There are the dassies which eyeball you along the cliff edge, eland that come visiting and the occasional baboon troop...

If you think private game farms cater only for euro-laden tourists, it's time to look east. With a little careful planning .....

This national Park is the smallest in the country, but offers all of us, including the bontebok, some space and tranquillity...

Kruger is South Africa's most iconic Kruger National Park is simply enormous. It comprises nearly reserve. It's a pristine wilderness that's practically...

The vast, silent Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park, declared in 1990, is one of the last conservation areas of this scale in the world....

Hwange National Park is slowly coming back to life after years of struggle in the backwash of Zimbabwe's economic collapse...

In Etosha rain is the metronome for the ancient dance of life. Evan Haussmann had a ringside seat at this unusual park .....

You've probably never heard of Tanzania's Saadani National Park, But if you're in the mood for carnivores and herbivores, birds...

As a child, science editor Tim Jackson remembers going to the zoo with his parents....

Just beyond Swellendam the Breede River eases itself past hillsides dotted with aloes and rare renosterveld shrubs. Tucked away ab

Proteas of every sort welcome you into this reserve at the foot of the Perdeberg Mountains. Pretty sunbirds feed on plant nectar ...

It may not be the best known of our parks, but the West Coast National Park is full of historical and wildlife wonder, and is just waiting to be discovered ....

Explore Namibia's flagship park during dry season and you'll be rewarded with incredible landscapes, waterholes teeming with...

The unique, protected Robberg (Seal Mountain) Peninsula neatly edges Plett's Bay and is home to an estimated 4000 Cape Fur Seals

"You can always learn something from someone else - if you can't, then your photography is unlikely to advance much further..."

False Bay is the world's best location for viewing great white sharks and learning to appreciate them...

Go on an expedition in the Delta's magical wetlands, carrying all you need in dugout canoes and camping on the islands...

Here one minute, gone the next - that is how African wild dogs could be described. As many a researcher knows...

Kevin Richardson is known all over the world as 'The Lion Whisperer'. He is also the producer of the highly acclaimed movie, White Lion...

Are they protected or aren't they? Elusive and highly mobile, leopards are at a high risk of being killed, ...

From a humble sanctuary for 11 elephants Addo Elephant National Park has shot up...

Whether you're predator or prey, standing out in a crowd is probably Not A Good Thing...

Surprisingly little is known about the Cape Fox (or Silver Fox as it's some times known)...