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Officials from 13 nations are meeting to discuss conservation efforts to save the endangered tiger.   Officials from countries where tigers still roam - Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia,...

Three stories in the press over the last few weeks, have given South African’s unusual concerns about swimming off Cape Town’s beaches, surfing around the estuaries of Eastern Cape Rivers and canoeing in the Umgeni River...

While Brisbane’s waste removal system battles to discard perfectly good mangos, this contrasts starkly with the difficulties and opportunities associated with agricultural produce gluts in poor communities in rural Africa...

The Masvingo regional court has sentenced a member of the Mazhongwe rhino poaching gang to 17 years in prison for killing an endangered rhino. Justice - at last: Zimbabwe rhino poacher Tichaona Mutyairi has been sentenced...

Wildlife conservationists in Zimbabwe are struggling to protect endangered rhinos - and now the uphill battle includes war veterans who have gotten into the rhino poaching business...

The Great Green Wall of Africa was announced by President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal at the Copenhagen United Nations Climate Change Conference on 16 December 2009...

Good news from Uganda: Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary has welcomed a third baby rhino! 2010 is off to a promising start at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, where a white rhino calf was born on January 2 - the third baby rhino following more than...

A young American lady, Katie Spotz, has just started to row across the Atlantic Ocean on her own. Why? Katie, 22 years old, hopes to raise $30,000 for Blue Planet Run and give clean water to 1,000 people by doing this! Katie...

12 suspected rhino poachers and rhino horn buyers have been arrested in Kenya following the killing of a female Southern white rhino on a private ranch...

African Elephant Bull Photographed in Kruger Park on 20 June 2009. The author’s last two posts have shown that culling is often used as a “solution” to limit the growth in animal numbers in a particular situations....

South Africa is under fire from breeders to ban its controversial canned hunting of captive lions.  The barbaric “sport” of canned hunting means an animal is hunted in a small space, with no chance of escape.  Lions...

Another human superstition driving a protected species closer to extinction: Vulture brains are believed to increase luck in the lottery and at the race track...

Alaska’s erosion is not a new discovery - natural ice barriers along Alaska’s coastline have been eroding at a rate of 45 feet a year along the North Slope...

Four of the world’s only known eight Northern white rhinos have arrived in Kenya to begin new lives at Ol Pejeta Conservancy - the last hope to save this critically endangered rhino subspecies...

Four of the world’s only known Northern white rhinos have arrived in Kenya to begin new lives at Ol Pejeta Conservancy - the last hope to save this critically endangered rhino subspecies...