Sitting in the front seat of an open Land Rover being driven furiously backward for about a half-mile while being chased by a bugling, ear-flapping, and very pissed off elephant matriarch is, well, ...

Hundreds of endangered animals were found dead in crates at a South African airport, animal inspectors said on Friday, after not receiving food or water for several days. South Africa’s National ...

In August, 15-year-old Ruben took a 5,200-mile trip from a shuttered private zoo in Armenia to his new sanctuary home in South Africa Animal Defenders International A lion left by himself at an ...

Scientists are making a mountain out of a mole hill after finding a rare breed of sightless burrowing mammal not seen for the better part of a century. Researchers spent two years searching the sand ...

Neil D’Cruze works for an international NGO, World Animal Protection as the Global Head of Wildlife Research. Angie Elwin works for an international NGO, World Animal Protection as a Wildlife Research ...

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago. All this time we were aware that there might be more, even older ...

Kruger National Park is a flagship South African conservation area home to lions, elephants, rhinos, and leopards. Tourists from all over the world flock to the park to see wildlife. But people living ...

South Africa’s animal laws are a relic of apartheid-era governance and fail to reflect constitutional values, modern scientific understandings, African ethics and the realities of modern animal ...

A new gene study questions a widely held belief about the thousands of lions living on farms across the country bred for tourism, trophy hunts, and for use in traditional medicine. For years, critics ...

Wandile Sihlobo is the Chief Economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (Agbiz) and a member of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC). South Africa has had a number of ...

This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. Sitting in the front seat of an open Land Rover being driven furiously backward for about a half-mile while ...