As we celebrate World Water Day, we are reminded of the critical role these ecosystems play in ensuring water security, ...

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

Dr. Dion George, Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, hailed the agreement as a landmark achievement in ...

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

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

Visit the 15-acre grounds at the former estate of the late Walter and Leonore Annenberg, including nine acres of desert ...

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 ...

A bout 700 feet from Zambezi National Park and less than a 10-minute drive to Mosi-oa-Tunya, a.k.a. Victoria Falls, one of ...

The Magaliesberg aloe is a slow-growing species and was listed as critically endangered after a survey ... supported by the Botanical Society of South Africa (BotSoc), is the first major ...

This would help alleviate pressures on wild populations of Heliconias and other endangered plant species. The researchers also hope this project will inspire similar efforts to study other ...