SAAMBR has urged humans to work towards a plastic free ocean after plastic, a nylon thread and rope were found in a dead turtle.
When SA photographer Jackie spotted a hippo laying belly up, she thought something was wrong. Little did she know, he was sunbathing!
‘If the tour guide looks scared, it’s the appropriate time to panic,’ wrote one person after watching a hippo chase a boat full of tourists.
Unlike in the movie ‘Don’t Look Up’, there are plans in place to deal with the potential of an asteroid collision with Earth.
Early flowering of the Namaqualand daisies is a phenological shift that will impact on tourism and is accelerated by climate change.
Jonathan the tortoise is the world’s oldest living animal at a whopping 190 years old and enjoys eating, sleeping and mating.
Cameroon’s Ebo Forest has a new tree named after Leonardo DiCaprio, the actor campaigned to stop the logging in the West African woodland.
Fossil track sites on the Cape south coast show ancient evidence of Knysna elephants making widespread use of open spaces in the area.
The perfect Christmas gift? The Rhino Orphanage is calling on donors to support its relocation project which will see them establish a new orphanage.
A woman claims that a tame hippo at a popular nature reserve in Hoedspruit in Limpopo attacked her and her cousin in November.
In what is quite an amazing sight, more than 50 humpback whales were spotted off the coast of Mouille Point in Cape Town.
It was a ‘bird vs bat’ wildlife showdown when a grey-headed bushshrike attacked a fruit bat that fell to the ground!
The High Court in Makhanda in the Eastern Cape has dismissed an urgent application to stop Shell’s plans to blast through the Wild Coast.
‘Imagine being a dolphin’: The Kiffness has written a powerful song about Shell’s Wild Coast sonar blasting plans.
New viral footage shows an elephant bull in musth damaging a safari vehicle in the Selati Game Reserve near Hoedspruit.
A rare sighting of a polar bear hunting down a reindeer on the Svalbard archipelago in Norway has raised questions whether it may be changing its diet.
More than 250 000 people have so far signed an online petition, demanding the government pull the plug on Shell’s Wild Coast exploration plan.
A newborn giraffe only had the protection of its mother when it was spotted by a hungry lioness in a large national game reserve in Kenya.
Durban’s famous snake catcher Nick Evans managed to capture four black mambas who scared the living daylights out of local residents!
Many are outraged by Shell’s alleged plans to blast through the Wild Coast during whale migration season in search of oil and gas.
In what is described as a ‘once-in-a-lifetime sighting’, a leopard escapes with a three-week-old lion cub in Tanzania.
The Beakham family at the Two Oceans Aquarium welcomed its latest rockhopper chick, Codi, who is now growing fast and furiously.
Images of a rare albino honey badger captured in SA is said to be the first record of this condition for this species in scientific literature.
In another exciting wildlife sighting, a leopard cub managed to escape a hungry hyena in the Kruger National Park.
‘Join the UFC,’ one person commented after seeing a clip of a judo giraffe employing martial arts to beat his opponent. Take a look…