There’s more to South African wildlife than the celebrated “Big Five”. From big to small, meat eater to ant eater, primate to reptile … our animals (and birds) are wild, varied and abundant. South Africa’s wildlife wonders
Rodrigue Katembo, a former child soldier in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been awarded an international environmental prize for his work as a park ranger and conservationist in the country’s Virunga National Park, Africa’s oldest wildlife park. CD Anderson Park ranger and conservationist Rodrigue Katembo won the Goldman Environm... Global conservation award for DRC park ranger and environmentalist
The scenic Route 62, between Cape Town and Oudtshoorn, has been named by CNN Travel as the world’s best road trip destination. Here are five must-see stops along the legendary Western Cape route. CD Anderson A CNN Travel poll, as voted by tourists and travel journalists, puts the scenic and fun-filled road between Cape Town […] South Africa’s Route 62 is world’s best road trip
Patrick Mwalua drives a truck hundreds of kilometres four times a week to deliver much needed water supplies to animals in Kenya’s drought-stricken Tsavo West National Park. CD Anderson The 41-year-old Kenyan pea farmer and conservationist Patrick Mwalua is the founder of Tsavo Volunteers, a small but passionate operation that delivers water ... Saving Kenyan wildlife from drought, one truck at a time
There has never been a more critical time to care for the environment than now. The Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa is one organisation educating the public on how we can do this. ... Wildlife Society teaches South Africans to care for environment
Conservationist and head of iSimangaliso Wetland Park Andrew Zaloumis has been awarded World Wildlife Fund South Africa’s 2015 Living Planet Award for his inspirational conservation work and his role in the economic turnaround of the prestigious KwaZulu-Natal nature reserve. South African conservationist wins WWF award
A professional photographer got lucky when he was on safari in the Kruger National Park. Arno Pietersen managed to capture a magnificent jumping kudu bull and the images have left an impression on those who have seen them. Leaping kudu caught on camera in South Africa
Sometimes the best way to deal with mountains of data is to turn to the public for help. That’s what Snapshot Serengeti did to classify millions of photos from savannah camera traps in Tanzania. Crowdsourcing the Serengeti: citizen scientists classify millions of photos online
Environmental Management Inspectors – commonly known as the Green Scorpions – have been deployed at South Africa’s busiest airport to combat transgressions of the country’s environmental laws, especially those relating to trade in endangered species. Green Scorpions target wildlife crime at OR Tambo
International visitors to South Africas Kruger National Park can put their holiday snaps to good use capturing images of cheetah and African wild dogs to help count the animals in the reserve, which is home to the largest protected population of cheetahs and wild dogs in South Africa. Counting cheetahs in South Africas Kruger National Park
Homing one third of the worlds 10 000 succulent species, 85 500 hectares of the Succulent Karoo region now falls under the protection of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act as the Knersvlakte Nature Reserve. Karoo succulents flourish in the newly declared Knersvlakte Nature Reserve
As one of the few African countries with a stable and strong elephant population, South Africa has stringent norms around managing the animals. It regularly updates or amends these. South Africas elephant Norms and Standards to be amended
It’s “flower safari” time as South Africa’s West Coast National Park prepares for its annual influx of visitors, come to see the spectacular spring flower displays that take place every August and September. South Africa’s west coast explodes in colour
Winning image: Greg du Toit’s extraordinary ‘Essence of Elephants’ won him the coveted title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Photo: Greg du Toit /Wildlife Photographer of the Year Sticky situation: Isak Pretorius’s photo shows a lesser noddy trapped in an orb web spider’s web on Cousine Island in th... South African is Wildlife Photographer of the Year
South Africa will welcome wildlife experts from around the world when it presents the prestigious International Wildlife Management Congress from 9 to 12 July in Durban.• Going wild in Southern Africa ... Wildlife experts to gather in South Africa
South Africa is renowned for its magnificent wildlife. From the elephant, lion, rhinoceros, buffalo and leopard, to the elephant shrew, ant lion, rhinoceros beetle, buffalo weaver and leopard tortoise, the country’s plains, seas and skies are natural treasure troves for the animal and bird lover.• Gallery: South Africa’s birdlife ... Gallery: South Africa’s wildlife
South African tour operator Wilderness Safaris has become the first tourism industry-based signatory to the Zeitz Foundation’s Long Run conservation initiative, and also the first from the African continent.• Responsible tourism at Buffalo Ridge ... Leading the way in eco-tourism
South Africans visiting the country’s national parks will get in for free during National Parks Week, which kicks off on 14 September 2009. Free entry into SA national parks
{loadposition tc}Click on a thumbnail for a low-resolution image, or right-click on the link below it to download a high-resolution copy of the image. » Download Countryside contact sheet (1.6MB) » Download full image library contact sheet (10.5MB) Western Cape province: The graveyard in the town of Prince Albert. Photo: MediaClubSouthAfrica... Photo library: Countryside 14
The locals have long known it, and now UK visitors agree: South Africa is the most beautiful country on earth. In the 2006 Reader’s Travel Awards by UK magazine Conde Nast Traveller, South Africa’s scenery scored 97.8% – the highest in the world – with the country being voted the world’s fifth-best tourist destination.... SA scenery the best in the world
