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Search results for: vultures

Natural history, News

Video: Johannesburg market sells illegal wildlife products

Footage emerges of body parts of endangered species being sold in a South African muthi market, highlighting “how little is actually being done on the ground” in spite of CITES’ intellectual discussions.

Natural history

Leopards: The Cats of the Shadows

Leopards inhabit many habitat types – but they also inhabit a blind spot in conservation. Tough to count, we can only guess their numbers

Natural history

Video: 60 hyenas take on a lion

Watch this epic video and images of a stand-off and brawl between hyenas and lions over a buffalo in Kenya’s Maasai Mara

Uncategorized

More incidences of vulture poisoning in South Africa

14 more vultures have been found in KwaZulu-Natal that are thought to have been poisoned by an unknown chemical.

Destinations, Ethiopia, Travel & Lifestyle, Travel diaries

Enchanting Ethiopia

An exploration of a magical corner of the continent.

Uncategorized

Peter Beard and The End of the Game

A meeting with Peter Beard, author of the End of the Game – a provocative tale of the harsh reality of starvation, poaching and hunting in Kenya.

Destinations, Etosha, Namibia, Travel & Lifestyle, Travel diaries

Exploring Etosha

Everything you need to know about Etosha National Park in Namibia – home of giant white elephants & crowded waterholes during the dry season

News

Poison destroys another Kenyan lion pride

The conflict between subsistence farmers and lions continues in the Amboseli ecosystem as a lion pride is poisoned.

News, Poaching

Famous Marsh lions poisoned in Maasai Mara

Lions from the Marsh Pride, made famous by the Big Cat Diary series, have been poisoned in the Maasai Mara with at least two lions dead as a result.

Travel & Lifestyle

A photo safari to South Luangwa

An unforgettable photographic safari with Africa Geographic in the remote Nsefu Sector of South Luangwa National Park

soaring white-headed vulture
Natural history

Increased poaching causes surge in African vulture deaths

Facing multiple threats including poisoning by poachers, African vultures are declining at a critical rate and researchers suggest that they are heading towards extinction.

Poaching

Southern African bearded vulture decline

Humans are largely to blame for the rapid demise of one of Africa’s most famous birds – the bearded vulture.

Natural history

11 Interesting Facts about Sociable Weavers

Sociable weavers build massive colonial nests that hang 4m high in trees and telephone posts throughout the arid regions of Southern Africa

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