In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

A short flight from Cape Town, lands into Skukuza in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. Its tiny airport resembles a safari lodge that sits in the middle ...

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Hundreds of migrating toads who were at risk of being killed by traffic have been safely relocated to breeding ponds by a special patrol group. Patrols from amphibian conservation charity Froglife had ...

A road in Bath in Somerset will be closed for the next six weeks to allow toads, frogs and newts to cross safely to their historic breeding ground. Volunteers will go out on patrol each night from 9 ...

Tufts University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. In a rapidly fracturing world, regional integration could be a source of resilience for the African continent. They ...

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We are in Kenya where we see the boss of Africa, the hippo, come up to the river to nudge these crocodiles away.