We laugh at foreigners who think wild animals roam our South African roads… but lately the evidence has suggested they may be right! For at least the second time in ten days, elephant have wandered down the main road between Mica and Hoedspruit. The first time – 30 May – it was one rogue elephant. And […]

Mobile apps that allows visitors to national parks to share information on exciting animal sightings are resulting in rude, lawless and dangerous behaviour that has led to road kills, according to South African National Parks (SANParks)… and legal channels are being sought to curtail the use of these apps. In a press statement today, SANParks said the […]

It’s not just human kids that love to play. As can be seen in this video, uploaded to YouTube yesterday, when the humans are away… the monkeys will play. Stefan de Villiers captured these monkeys have a ball on the jungle gym in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. Watch Video: Monkeys have a ball on slides […]

A group of tourists in a South African game park were on the edge of their seats – literally – when they spied a waterbuck crossing a waterway, seemingly oblivious that a crocodile was closing in. And fast! Watch what happened next.

Voluntary unpaid animal and conservation lovers working in tandem with the national parks contributed a record R48 million in services and money over the past year, SANParks Honorary Rangers said this week. In a statement on Wednesday, SANParks said it welcomed the R48 million “in cash, kind and services” in its 21 national parks done […]

A visitor to the Kruger National Park in South Africa captured this adorable scene on film… of an elephant calf excitedly learning new tricks with its trunk, including how to pull off a very sweet hand stand! Fiona Adler Sadman filmed the little elephant’s antics on 5 May 2016. Watch Video: Baby Ellie in Kruger […]

The success of Emirates’ anti-poaching wildlife message has truly gone sky-high with the fifth A380 to join the campaign unveiled on Monday… although this jet will be grounded! It will be featured at the famous traffic roundabout leading to London’s Heathrow airport. The site – as most South Africans who’ve travelled to London know – is […]

Of the 8.7 million species of animals, plants and fungi thought to live on Earth, we have only named 1.2 million: 86 percent of the natural world is uncharted. For most people, both this incredible richness and our ignorance are hard to fathom. Imagine that each of the 6.5 million species thought to live on land – […]

After being chased by an elephant whilst on safari in South Africa, Arnold Schwarzenegger – who’s no stranger to extreme action – admitted “some of us had to change our pants” afterwards! Fortunately the frightening experience hasn’t stopped the Hollywood star from being “in awe of these beautiful, strong creatures” and urging people to stop killing […]

The involvement of international, sophisticated criminal groups in wildlife crime has been confirmed in the World Wildlife Crime Report – the first ever global assessment of wildlife crime, published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The report shows what a devastating impact corruption has had, and concludes that “trafficking of wildlife is increasingly […]

The lion which became famous for escaping from the Karoo National Park not once, but twice, woke up in his new home this morning – Addo Elephant National Park, about two hours outside Port Elizabeth in South Africa. The lion – known as ‘Sylvester’ in the media – first made headlines when he escaped from the […]

Four suspected poachers were arrested in Kruger Park after a SA National Parks helicopter had been fired on five times, marking a “dramatic escalation” in the fight against rhino poaching, the minister of environmental affairs said in a statement on Thursday. Minister Edna Molewa congratulated the parks and law-enforcement authorities for “averting a catastrophe”. According […]

Jamie Joseph from Saving the Wild is on a mission: to fight against the poaching that is bringing our rhino to the brink of extinction, to stamp out the corruption that’s enabling these killings. She’s already managed to convince South Africa’s incredible Public Protector Thuli Madonsela to conduct a preliminary investigation into her corruption findings. Jamie’s […]

Visitors to Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park were treated to a very special – and rather scary – up close and personal experience with lions whilst sitting in their tent. Watch the video below. Francie Francisca Lubbe, from Gauteng in South Africa, uploaded this video to Kgalagadi Sightings’ Facebook page showing just how close the lions were, licking […]

Watch the video below as what looks like a great meal for the lions turns into more of a bun fight… well actually, a cat fight! The footage was taken by Ranger Mike in the Mala Mala Private Game Reserve in the Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa. Two lionesses from one pride chase the […]

Conservationist PETER CHADWICK captured this powerful photograph during the recent dehorning of white rhino at the Phinda Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal. The dehorning has taken place in a desperate bid to save the rhino from poachers… to rescue these animals from extinction. After spending a month at Phinda with Simon James Naylor and “his amazing conservation […]

The first I heard Phinda Private Game Reserve was seriously considering #dehorning their rhinos was back in January when I was there on an assignment. The warrior in me said, “But you’re Phinda, you can beat it!” Two months later I was back at #Phinda on a different assignment when I woke up to a […]

Less than a year after Cecil the Lion was shot in Zimbabwe by a US dentist, causing an international uproar, the famous lion’s latest offspring made a great showing in Hwange National Park. The cubs, fathered by Cecil’s son Xanda, were filmed earlier in the month near Linkwasha Camp in Hwange National Park by Graham Simmonds of Wilderness […]

New footage has emerged proving that the Kruger National Park were quite right when they hypothesised that the buffalo which smashed into a tourist’s vehicle in South Africa – in a video which went viral – were probably “spooked” by lions. As reported by SAPeople on Friday, the Kruger said that “most probably there were lions […]

NIGEL RILEY captured these dramatic photos last Saturday morning at Kalk Bay in the Western Cape. Nigel, who was once in the South African Navy himself, commended the men on the boat for being “true seamen, placing the vessel ahead of their lives – ‘no ship, no food on the table’.” All photos © Nigel Riley and republished here with […]

Kruger National Park have uploaded a video in which a tourist’s car is smashed into by stampeding buffalo. The Park said: “This amazing sighting happened along the main road from Satara to Olifants Camps in the Kruger Park. “A herd of Cape Buffalo approached a waterhole when suddenly they stampeded in the opposite direction and […]

South Africa will not be applying for the opening of legal international commercial trade in rhino horn at the 17th Conference of Parties to CITES (CITES COP17), says Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa. Minister Molewa made the announcement on Sunday in Pretoria, following the work that has been finalised by the Committee of Inquiry on […]

The Minister of Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, Sunday reported back on the progress of the Integrated Strategic Management of Rhinoceros – the South African government’s multi-sectoral, multi-disciplinary strategy to combat the threat posed by rhino poaching – announced by Cabinet in August 2014; and released the latest rhino statistics. The minister also confirmed that South Africa […]

He’s not a rhino. And his mother wasn’t poached. But a one-week-old baby hippo is being taken care of by Thula Thula Rhino Orphanage, after he was abandoned by his pod. World renowned rhino expert and orphanage consultant, Karen Trendler, reported yesterday that local conservation authorities had referred the “very tiny, very weak” hippo calf to […]

Rescuing wild animals is a long-haul occupation, as Louise Joubert of SanWild Wildlife Sanctuary knows. But a few weeks ago, a more than four-year-long cheetah project – which had lots of heartache in between – came to fruition, with the birth in the wild of at least six cheetah from parents that had been rescued. “We […]