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Astounding Africa: a touching moment
African penguins Spheniscus demersus generally partner for life, with each pair returning to the same breeding colony and same nesting site year after year. It the only penguin species that is endemic...
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Astounding Africa: Seychelles
“When I think of the Seychelles all the colours in my mind go electric. The sun reflecting off the white sand, turquoise water, green jungles and fiery sunsets make everything surreal, a tropical...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s “irresponsible” go-ahead for lion bone sales to Asian markets
The sale from captive-bred lions will reduce the Asian appetite for wild lion parts from a growing market for exotic products such as tiger-bone wine. This appears to be the view of South Africa’s...
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Looking at the beginning of everything: South Africa’s part in unravelling...
The MeerKAT telescope being built in South Africa’s Karoo is the technology proving precursor to the much larger deep space probing Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. MeerKAT will come on stream in...
View ArticleCalling all Capetonians – It’s time to prepare for Day Zero
If you live at the southwestern tip of Africa and you don’t know that the region faces a water crisis of note you must have been asleep under a rock for the past year or so. Every local newspaper and...
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Rhino killings slightly down in 2017 – but “we’re far from seeing the light...
A total 1,028 rhinos were illegally killed in South Africa in 2017. This sad statistic, released by South Africa’s Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa, confirms that we are still losing...
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Shannon Elizabeth – From Hollywood to Africa (Part One)
That Africa draws people to it is undeniable – every year hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world touch down somewhere on this astoundingly rich and diverse continent. For many it is...
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Shannon Elizabeth – From Hollywood to Africa – Part Two
In 2015, American actress, Shannon Elizabeth Fadal, had made a whirlwind visit to Zimbabwe and South Africa to hand over donations raised in the US for projects here in Africa. Her mission was twofold,...
View ArticleWorld Elephant Day – watch them, marvel at them, but don’t ride them …
Today is World Elephant Day and so these magnificent creatures deserve a special mention. We should, however, be thinking of them all the time and reflecting on the fact that we continue to lose...
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55 million years of rhinos – sometimes weird, but always wonderful
From its pony-sized, hornless ancient ancestor, the many iterations of the rhino have included Paraceratherium, quite possibly the biggest and heaviest mammal ever, and Elasmotherium – a giant with a...
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