They say dogs are a man’s best friend. But in South Africa, this Anatolian Shepherd dog is becoming a baby rhino’s best friend… and protector. The dog, named David, has been introduced to baby rhinoceros Esme at the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC). The young rhino calf was adopted by HESC a few days ago […]

Watch this adorable female southern white rhinoceros calf run in slow motion. The calf was born on 5 October, out in the pasture at The Wilds in Ohio, USA, and is the second fifth-generation white rhino born outside of Africa, according to The Wilds. Both were born at The Wilds. Dan Beetem, Director of Animal Management, […]

South African photojournalist Brent Stirton has scooped the grand title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017 for a photo he captured of a de-horned black rhino, after a poaching kill, in Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park. The image – Memorial to a Species – was chosen by an international panel of judges as the winning picture from […]

Thanks to team effort, a lioness on the loose on the N4 in South Africa was safely returned to the Kruger National Park this morning. Tour guide Mario Paul, from Izwe African Safaris, was on his way to do a game drive from Crocodile Bridge, when he received a call from fellow tour guide David […]

Tourists in the Kruger National Park found themselves having to change a tyre with lions in the vicinity, after one of the lions bit their tyre… Apart from the fright the lions gets, the South African family’s conversation is just as entertaining! Watch Lion Bites Tyre in Kruger Park   According to LatestSightings, which uploaded […]

Due to reported cases of Malaria in Mpumalanga Province recently, in particular Ehlanzeni District Municipality of which the southern part of the Kruger National Park (KNP) falls under, the Kruger Park management has cautioned visitors coming to the Park to take the necessary precautionary measures against Malaria disease. “We would like to advise visitors to […]

Over 100 hippopotamuses have tragically been found dead in one of Namibia’s biggest game parks – Bwabwata National Park – in the Zambezi region, in the north east of the country. According to reports Namibia’s Ministry of Environment and Tourism confirmed the deaths are not linked to poaching. Parks Deputy Director of the region, Apollinaris […]

We have such an abundance of wildlife in South Africa, from the bush to our oceans… with elephants and giraffe striding across the land and whales and dolphins splashing in the surf – that sometimes you can forget to look up at the beautiful fluffier creatures that decorate our skies. Last night in Kuilsriver, Western […]

For the fourth consecutive year, South Africa is taking part in the (truly) Global March for Elephants, Rhinos and Lions… to raise awareness for our endangered iconic wildlife, writes Megan Carr, VP Social Media, GMFER. The Global March for Elephants and Rhinos (GMFER) is an entirely volunteer based, grassroots activist US-registered non-profit organisation. The theme […]

Tour guide and regular SAPeople contributor Lloyd Koppel was “hanging out” on his balcony in Walker Bay, De Kelders (Western Cape, South Africa) yesterday with some guests, when a beautiful sight unfolded in front of them… watch below. “Beautiful moments. There was a lob-tailing Southern Right Whale in front of the house. This went on for over […]

The Guardian newspaper has published rare footage of the secretive – yet legal – world of wild elephant capture in Zimbabwe. In this footage, reportedly filmed in August in Hwange National Park, a young elephant can be seen being kicked and hit in an effort to get it to back into a truck. According to […]

Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park (HiP), once a global conservation success story for bringing rhinos back from the brink of extinction in the fifties, is fast becoming a graveyard and failure of epic proportions under the helm of Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife management… writes Jamie Joseph from SavingTheWild.com. Saving the Wild has been closely monitoring the Zululand park since […]

Watch this dramatic footage of 80 ton whales in Hermanus, South Africa… Video and text by Luke Bell. Every year large numbers of Southern Right Whales travel from the Antarctic to the warmer Walker Bay off the coast of South Africa to calve and mate. Located about an hour and a half out of Cape […]

Another large bull elephant – possibly even one of the remaining iconic Big Tuskers – was shot and killed in Zambia last week, according to reports on social media. Game Animals of the Past and Present, a supporter of professional hunting for its conservation purposes, said on 25 September 2017: “Biggest elephant shot in Zambia […]

The South African Whale Disentanglement Network (SAWDN) successfully rescued a whale today that had become entangled in rope… in what was the furthest disentanglement operation to date. The whale in distress was at least 45 nautical miles off-shore, between Knysna and Plettenberg Bay. The juvenile Humpback whale – of approximately 14 metres – was horribly […]

Eish! Wales International rugby star Scott Baldwin was forced to miss his match after being bitten by a lion in Bloemfontein, South Africa. (Watch video below.) Scott was quick to add – on social media – that it was his fault and not the lion’s! The Ospreys team were visiting Weltevreden Game Lodge in Bloemfontein […]

A cute video of a baby hippo and a baby rhino playing together at an orphanage in South Africa has been shared around the world by small and major news outlets, including MSN. Watch here: https://www.facebook.com/HelpingRhinos/videos/1662663127086707/ The video shows baby Charlie, an 18-month old hippo, playing with six-month-old Ntoto. But while the video is adorable… […]

WESTERN CAPE – A dog is commonly known as man’s best friend… but to Sergeant Marius Claassens from the West Coast K8 Unit, based in Saldanha Bay, his ‘paw enforcement’ partner, Alex, is his partner and so much more. According to the South African Police Service (SAPS), Alex – a Belgian Malinois – has been […]

Presenter Bonné de Bod, along with fellow filmmaker Susan Scott, was granted exclusive access to the 2017 Rhino Census, which took place in the Kruger Park recently. De Bod and Scott, who have been working on the highly anticipated anti-poaching rhino feature documentary STROOP, due for release in early 2018, were delighted with this opportunity as it was […]

Take a break… and watch this video compilation of baboons behaving badly in South Africa. It’s havoc! Earlier this year the City of Cape Town urged residents to ‘baboon-proof’ their homes, supplying two-pin lockable bins and a host of tips including never leaving food on display (even pet food), installing burglar bars and only putting […]

One man’s beautiful kind deed has been viewed over 55 million times in the past couple of days. Watch below as he crawls through the mud and does all he can to rescue an impala that is stuck firmly in the mud, where it would certainly have perished if he hadn’t been brave and compassionate […]

World renowned Wildlife artist and conservationist David Shepherd has sadly passed away after a 10-week fight in hospital with Parkinson’s Disease. The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF), which he founded, said in a statement that he passed away peacefully overnight. DSWF paid tribute, saying: “For over 50 years David has dedicated his life to protecting […]

This is not a new video – but it’ll give you goosebumps nonetheless if you love Africa and its wildlife. It’s the real deal – not the fake lion roar you often hear in movies. Latest Sightings – Kruger, who uploaded the video a year ago, said the lions were seen in the middle of […]

Same speech, one year later. What a disgrace… writes anti-rhino poaching activist, SavingTheWild’s JAMIE JOSEPH, as she threatens to lift the lid on rhino poaching corruption if things don’t change. I woke up this morning to a report by East Coast Radio that “Officials from #Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, the departments of Economic Development and Environmental […]

Wildlife photographer Bernhard Bekker captured this once-in-a-lifetime video (see below) in August when a pride of 20 lions drank from the Sabie River in perfect unison at the Kruger National Park in South Africa. The 40-year-old South African wildlife photographer and tour guide told the Daily Mail: “It’s just such an amazing moment. In 18 […]