The Maccoa ducklings hatched as part of a breeding program to save the species. The post Endangered African ducks hatch at ...

When it comes to African wildlife, few things capture the imagination like the Big Five animals. I still remember the first ...

Construction has begun on what will become South Africa’s largest wind farm, a 400MW project near Swellendam that promises to ...

Wild populations of the rare Maccoa duck, an African wetland species, have been dwindling for decades. There numbers are ...

So when a bird he brought back from a forest in southwest Gabon, Africa, turned out to be a new species, he made sure it was given a proper name: Stiphrornis pyrrholaemus, which is Greek for ...

In Africa, urban land cover is expected to triple by 2030, and the potential impact on birds and biodiversity is particularly alarming, a new op-ed argues.

A baby red-crested turaco, with gray plumage, is the first chick born to the first African bird species to inhabit Osher Rainforest dome at the California Academy of Sciences. Dec. 9, 2024.

There are 147 bird species categorised as threatened or near-threatened in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini, according to the revised Red Data Book of Birds (RDB-online) launched by BirdLife ...