It's hoped these naturally occurring seed banks could be used to restore one of the country's most iconic plant ecosystems.

In a landmark victory for conservation, BirdLife South Africa and the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of ...

Settlement secures biologically meaningful foraging areas for African Penguins for next decade to help bring the species back from the brink of extinction.

Island closures are painted as an economic cost to the fishing industry, but losing African Penguins will cost us ...

In a landmark move expected to save the endangered African penguin, South Africa’s High Court has ordered no-fishing zones ...

Wattled cranes, a winter-breeding, wetland-dependent species, were listed as regionally critically endangered in 2015, with ...

Underground seed banks in South Africa that date back over 130 years have been found to contain fynbos seeds that are alive. These seed banks are natural storage areas in the soil where certain plants ...

Hundreds of ancient fynbos species could regrow and restore a former pine plantation on Cape Town’s Table Mountain, but only ...

A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has now been described. Nothobranchius sylvaticus, from the Latin meaning 'pertaining to the ...

Conservation NGOs and commercial sardine and anchovy fisheries in South Africa have reached an out-of-court settlement ...

Renowned South African cheetah conservationist and National Geographic Explorer Vincent van der Merwe took his own life in ...

Island closures are painted as an economic cost to the fishing industry, but losing African Penguins will cost us dearly.