teamAG, Author at Africa Geographic

Photographer of the Year 2021 Weekly Selection: Week 14

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Forest elephants – vanishing ghosts

Forest elephants have finally been granted species status (something scientists have known for decades). With this has come the appalling IUCN classification of ‘critically endangered’

Photographer of the Year 2021 Weekly Selection: Week 13

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Mandrill – a colourful character

The mandrill is a colourful, tool-using, socially complex monkey that lives in groups called hordes in the forests of western Central Africa.

Photographer of the Year 2021 Weekly Selection: Week 12

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Translocating lions does not reduce conflict – research

New research from Botswana shows that translocating lions in conflict with livestock owners is expensive and results in high lion mortality, repeat offences and very little reduction in human-lion conflict.

African canids – 11 fascinating species

Today, 11 African canids, from excitable African painted wolves and shrewd jackals to the tiny fox species, hunt the continent’s desert, alpine grassland, savanna and woodland.

Photographer of the Year 2021 Weekly Selection: Week 11

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Kasanka Bat Migration – an astonishing natural wonder

The Kasanka bat migration in Zambia is the largest mammal migration on planet earth. It’s a spectacular must-see for nature lovers

Fairy circles – ghostly footprints of dead Euphorbias

Fairy circles – Euphorbia toxins are responsible for the bizarre fairy circles that have baffled and fascinated scientists – new research

Photographer of the Year 2021 Weekly Selection: Week 10

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Laikipia – land of staggering natural beauty

Laikipia in Kenya – a land of staggering beauty & biodiversity – a mosaic of wildlife conservancies, ranchlands & commercial farms

SEEK and ye shall find – elephant identification

Elephant identification is a difficult task – but a new system based on ear patterns is making the task easier – research by Elephants Alive

Photographer of the Year 2021 Weekly Selection: Week 9

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The rhino Cryovault – frozen in time

If all the money, time, blood and sweat fails to save our wild rhinos, Hemmersbach has a solution. The rhino Cryovault holds repositories of rhino DNA, gametes, and tissues preserved indefinitely.

Photographer of the Year 2021 Weekly Selection: Week 8

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Photographer of the Year 2021 Weekly Selection: Week 7

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African Wildcat

African wildcats are one of Africa’s “Secret 7” – tough little cats are just as untamed and fierce as their iconic big cat cousins

Does the farming and legal trade of wildlife do more harm than good? New study

Farming and legal trade of wildlife could increase demand for wildlife products and so be negative from a conservation perspective – research

Photographer of the Year 2021 Weekly Selection: Week 6

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KGALAGADI

Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park offers one of the most intimate immersions in nature imaginable – free from the trappings of modern life

Photographer of the Year 2021 Weekly Selection: Week 5

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Meet the world’s smallest chameleon

This dwarf chameleon is officially the world’s smallest chameleon, measuring just 22mm. Found only in Madagascar, this is Brookesia nana

Photographer of the Year 2021 Weekly Selection: Week 4

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Did fences cause the elephant deaths in Botswana?

New study examines whether fences could have impacted the elephant deaths in the Seronga region of Botswana in mid-2020.

Unravelling the elaborate sex lives of spotted hyenas

High-ranked male spotted hyenas are more reproductively successful than their low-ranked rivals – hormone and behaviour analysis reveals why.

Photographer of the Year 2021 Weekly Selection: Week 3

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Kruger rhino populations plummet – latest official stats

Rhino populations in the Kruger National Park have plummeted to an estimated 3,529 white and 268 black rhinos – due to poaching & drought

Photographer of the Year 2021 Weekly Selection: Week 2

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‘Gold rush’ as Botswana meets appetite for lion parts

Investigation reveals Botswana is exporting both live lions and lion parts to South Africa – possible links to canned hunting

MAKULEKE

Between two rivers and three countries, Makuleke Contractual Park in northern Kruger is a spectacular biodiversity and historical hotspot

Of ivory, elephants, shipwrecks and slaughter

Ivory recovered from 500-year-old shipwreck reveals details of the ivory trade and how it has devastated forest elephant populations.

Photographer of the Year 2021 Weekly Selection: Week 1

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Cape Parrot

This is Africa’s rarest parrot. The Cape parrot is found only in small fragmented patches of the remaining mistbelt forests in South Africa

Spotting elephants from space

Artificial intelligence and satellite images can help conservationists count elephants from space, says new research.

CEO note: A story about perspective

Madikwe Game Reserve

Madikwe Game Reserve is a malaria-free safari haven and conservation success story that benefits people, wildlife and the ecosystem

CEO note: Boycott Africa + elephants vs villagers

Cheetahs return to Bangweulu, Zambia

Three cheetahs have been successfully translocated from South Africa to Bangweulu in Zambia – the first cheetahs there in nearly a century

The extinction business – South Africa’s cold-blooded reptile trade

South Africa’s amphibian & reptile trade is a growing industry that is unregulated, unsustainable, and unethical – says report

CEO note: Frack the Okavango + arch enemies + Gorongosa

Paradise is closing down: The ghastly spectre of oil drilling and fracking in fragile Okavango Delta

Okavango Delta under threat as oil drilling and fracking loom on the horizon after Canadian company tests massive prospecting concessions

Arch-enemies? New research on lions vs hyenas

Lions vs hyenas is the ultimate African drama. New research has shed light on the dynamics between these two apex predators

CEO note: Crafty strategy + great news + rhino facts

RHINO

Africa’s 2 rhino species are the most numerous of the world’s 5 species. Here is everything you need to know about black and white rhinos

580 elephants return to Virunga in DR Congo – and other species follow in their wake

580 elephants have been seen moving again between Queen Elizabeth NP in Uganda and Virunga NP in DR Congo – and other species are following

Female banded mongooses incite violence for better mating opportunities

Female banded mongooses lead their groups into deliberate conflict with rival groups to increase their chances of mating – research

CEO note: Free at last + Hwange + the edge

The Edge of Existence and human-wildlife conflict – we interview James Suter

The Edge of Existence tells the story of human-wildlife conflict on the western boundary of Tanzania’s Serengeti. We interview the filmmaker

HWANGE

Zimbabwe’s oldest and largest national park, Hwange is a safari paradise that hosts large populations of elephants, lions and wild dogs