A tracker sitting on a chair at the front of a safari vehicle did the right thing to remain calm while an elephant truly sniffed him out! A video, shared by Anton van Niekerk, was uploaded by Lowvelder Laevelder today showing the tracker’s up close and personal experience with the elephant. According to the Lowvelder caption […]

A video of a baby elephant playing with low-flying swallows in South Africa’s Kruger National Park (which SAPeople shared earlier this month) has become a huge hit on YouTube. Uploaded in late July, it has received over 7 million views to date and has been popular across the world. The ad revenue is also being put […]

Ooh la la. There were two incidents in KwaZulu-Natal yesterday with agitated elephants and English and French tourists in hired cars! Fortunately everyone has survived the incidents, a little shaken…but unharmed. Gavin Udal, from Wendy’s Country Lodge, was on a game drive through the iMfolosi-Hluhluwe Game Reserve when he captured these photos of the two vehicles, […]

In response to popular demand to see footage from “Stroop – Die Film”, here is the chance to have a “first glance” at some of the heartbreaking scenes from the documentary about rhino poaching in South Africa. SAPeople members helped in Stroop’s fund-raising efforts to have this important film made. Now the filmmakers,  would love your feedback […]

The new movie When Giants Fall is coming soon and it looks like it’s going to be what we’ve been waiting for. It tells the story of the ivory crisis and of the people who fight for the survival of the elephant against increasingly hostile poaching networks. By now we all know that the African […]

John Stanford arrived in Cape Town on 4 August, following a gruelling bicycle ride of 15,200 km from London to the Mother City, undertaken to raise funds and awareness for the conservation of rhinos and an end to poaching. He and a friend left Putney Bridge in the UK in October 2014 and made their […]

To celebrate the third annual World Lion Day (10 August 2015), here are some of our favourite photos of lions in Africa…chilling in trees. According to safari guide Craig Doria, it’s fairly common in Tanzania where the Manyara National Park is called “Home of the Tree Climbing Lions”, and even more can be found in […]

With the escalating poaching of rhino causing rhino figures to tragically dwindle it’s become a rare sight and privilege to view a rhino in the wild in South Africa…let alone to witness a mating pair of Black Rhino who bring hope to the country and to the species. So when Gavin Udal from Wendy’s Country […]

When an elephant has to drink, he has to drink. And if there isn’t a running river or waterhole nearby, he won’t think twice about surprising tourists by dipping his trunk into a camp swimming pool (or even a toilet – see video below). But today Lorraine Botha discovered a couple of elephants that are even smarter and […]

Kruger Sightings recently added this gorgeous video of a tiny new-born elephant to their YouTube page. The elephant calf can be seen trying to chase away swallows that are flying low around him. The video was taken by a tourist called Susan on the H3 near Berg en Dal in the Kruger National Park, in […]

Dave Hurwitz from Simon’s Town Boat Company captured these awesome photos of whales having a proverbial “whale” of a time two days ago. Dave told SAPeople that “we find if it is windy, the whales become super active.” On Facebook he wrote “It was wild out there this morning [3 August 2015] – the sea […]

Since Minnesota dentist Walter James Palmer was named as the American dentist responsible for killing a well-known lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe last month in an allegedly illegal hunt, people around the planet have taken to social media to create a worldwide roar of disapproval. Some were upset by the killing of Cecil, while others were […]

Only a day after The Telegraph newspaper identified Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer as the person who had shot and killed with a bow and arrow Zimbabwe’s famed Cecil the Lion, social media has turned not only Palmer but hunters in general into some of the world’s most hated villains. Twitter yesterday was bristling with comments […]

A baby rhino in a South African wildlife park seems to have sought out the “comfort” of cars after losing its mother in a phenomenon known as “imprinting”. Debbie English, who is in her fourth year of veterinary science at Onderstepoort, posted some touching photos this weekend of a little rhino calf who was stranded without its mother. “This little guy […]

A South African woman, Rosie Kunneke, is being hailed as a hero in the Danish Faroe Islands where she has been trying to prevent the traditional slaughter of a pod of pilot whales. Together with Christophe Bondue of Belgium she was arrested at the Bøur slaughter for her actions. Rosie is Land Team Leader of Sea […]

South African photographer Arno Pietersen has captured an awesome sequence of photographs of a kudu jumping across the road in Kwaggaspan, in the Kruger National Park. Arno, who was working as Field Guide/Ranger for Place of Rock safari company, at the time of the sighting – on Monday, uploaded the three photos to Facebook yesterday […]

Australian surfer Mick Fanning was attacked by a shark during the J-Bay Open at Jeffreys Bay in South Africa this afternoon. The Gold Coast surfer miraculously escaped unharmed as spectators watched in horror. Mick was in the Finals against fellow Australian Julian Wilson (who actually swam towards Mick to help him!). Both were rescued by a […]

Everybody’s heard of Africa’s “Big Five”…but not everybody identifies the animals that belong in that Big 5 group correctly. Ask around in your office. Most foreigners – even South Africans sometimes – will confidently trot out “rhino, elephant, lion…” and then they get stuck. Animals like hippo, cheetah, wildebeest, hyena and even giraffe and gorilla […]

On Tuesday morning I had a beautiful experience, an extended interaction with four otters on Scarborough beach! Elusive, in 15 years living in Scarborough I have only twice caught brief glimpses of single otters. This was a complete treat, a full romp of them in a mood to engage. They were extremely confident and inquisitive…it felt like they were […]

The official trailer for “Blood Lions”, an explosive documentary that claims to expose “the terrible truth” behind the breeding of lions and the canned lion hunting industry in South Africa, has been released today. (See below.) Previously two short teasers were uploaded to YouTube with one showing how visitors to petting zoos and parks, who pose happily […]

Social worker, writer and film-maker John Clarke has created a light-hearted video to send a serious message about saving the Pondoland Wild Coast of South Africa from Australian mining entrepreneur Mark Victor Caruso. The Australian executive chairman of MRC Ltd has been embroiled in the Xolobeni mining conflict on the Wild Coast, which is home to titanium […]

It dawned on me yesterday morning around 3 hours into the most boring “Game” drive of all time. I was doing brain exercises in order to ensure that I didn’t lose consciousness from the devastating cold and from the mind numbing nothingness of the experience, and in order to ensure that I didn’t slip away […]

It appears that the one thing an elephant definitely never forgets…is its good manners! When Adrian Fowler, a South African session drummer from Cape Town, was on an elephant-back safari in Victoria Falls last year, the thoughtful elephant he was sitting on picked up his gear for him and handed it (well, ‘trunked’ it) back to […]

This video of a Great White Shark trying to gnaw its way through a shark viewing cage has gone totally viral! It was uploaded on 30 June 2015 by an American volunteer in South Africa. It has already received over 2.3-million views on YouTube. Hillary Rae Petroski, from New York, wrote on her Facebook page: […]

Video footage has surfaced of the leopard attack which took place yesterday, Thursday 2 July 2015, in the Kruger National Park (KNP) in South Africa. Curtis Plumb, a field guide working for Nhongo Safaris – one of the Open Safari Vehicle (OSV) companies operating in the Kruger – was attacked by the leopard during a game drive. […]