Freshwater fish are an ‘aquatic version of the canary in the coalmine’ for Africa’s rivers, lakes and wetlands, a new report ...

“The frilled or silver nudibranch Leminda millecra is found only on the South and East coast of South Africa and has produced ...

What do a wildlife conservationist, a herd of trained elephants, a jazz composer and an architect have in common? In the ...

The term ‘symbiosis’ means living together, and symbiotic relationships are close or intimate relationships between members ...

A young man in South Africa listed all the categories where Mzansi made it into the Guinness World Records, from sports to ...

An estimated 26 per cent of Africa’s freshwater fish species are threatened (including those assessed as Critically ...

The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at the South Pole. In fact ...

Concerns about the impacts of invasive species is not new; it dates to the 19th century. The term was popularized in Charles Elton's 1958 book "The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants". However ...

South African authorities have confirmed new outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza strain on two poultry ...

A new species, Breviceps batrachophiliorum, also known as the Boston Rain Frog, has been discovered in South Africa, ...

What are the Big Five animals and why are they called Big Five? The term ‘The Big Five’ has its roots in the early 19th century during the era of big-game hunting in Africa. Coined by European ...