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SA hunters expelled over canned lion hunting
Two South African hunting associations that embrace canned lion hunting have lost an appeal to retain their membership to Europe’s top hunting organisation, and have been thrown out of the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation for breach of policy.

Photographer of the Year 2018 Top 101: Gallery 4
Africa Geographic’s Photographer of the Year top 101 gallery will have you dusting off your camera and booking your next African safari with them

Photographer of the Year 2018 Top 101: Gallery 2
Africa Geographic’s Photographer of the Year top 101 gallery will have you dusting off your camera and booking your next African safari with them

Photographer of the Year 2018 Top 101: Gallery 5
Africa Geographic’s Photographer of the Year top 101 gallery will have you dusting off your camera and booking your next African safari with them

Photographer of the Year 2018 Top 101: Gallery 3
Africa Geographic’s Photographer of the Year top 101 gallery will have you dusting off your camera and booking your next African safari with them

Photographer of the Year 2018 Top 101: Gallery 1
Africa Geographic’s Photographer of the Year top 101 gallery will have you dusting off your camera and booking your next African safari with them

Celebrating Africa’s Elephants
This fantastic photo gallery of African elephants will have you booking your next safari with Africa Geographic and packing those bags

Giraffe survives despite deformed jaw
Despite a deformed jaw, this giraffe cow has been able to adapt and survive in the Kruger National Park.

Should businesses pay to use animals in their logos and marketing efforts?
Many charismatic species such as elephants, lions, tigers and pandas face the threat of extinction, despite being held up as the poster characters for conservation.

Wild black rhinos to return to Chad after 50-year absence
An unprecedented collaboration between the South African and Chadian Governments, SANParks and African Parks, is enabling the translocation of critically endangered black rhinos from South Africa to a secure park in Chad on the 3rd May, reintroducing the species to the country after almost fifty years of local extinction.

Lion mass slaughter house
The Blood Lions team and other environmentalists reacted with horror to reports that a lion slaughterhouse was established ‘overnight’ on a farm outside Bloemfontein.

Impalas cry wolf, so say zebras!
It turns out that impalas are the drama queens of the African bushveld, and other species know it, and don’t take their predator alarm calls too seriously.