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Conservation
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Tracking Study Shows Cape Town Cats Walk Up To 18km A Day, Love Table Mountain, And Kill Around 100 Animals A Year
16 Mar 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
GPS devices attached to pet cats in Cape Town show that they enjoy walking huge distances and enjoy a few killing sprees that have a “massive toll” on the environment.
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Know Someone Who Wants To Own The World’s Largest Rhino Breeding Farm Complete With 2 000 Rhinos?
16 Feb 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
The world’s largest rhino breeding and conservation farm is being put up for auction in mid-April.
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Capetonians Need To Pay Attention To The Warning Signs Of Another Day Zero
15 Feb 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Although it may be too early to actually panic, it is probably necessary to sound the initial alarm to avoid yet another Day Zero like the one experienced in 2018.
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Another ‘Only In South Africa’ Moment: “Suspicious” PostNet Package Turned Out To Be Live Reptiles [Images]
10 Feb 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
This time, the “suspicious contents” of a PostNet package at a Pretoria branch turned out to be several live reptiles.
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A Billion Dollar Startup Is Attempting To Bring Back The Dodo
07 Feb 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
May the force be with us if they ever decide to bring dinosaurs back.
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Sublime Shots From The Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Awards
02 Dec 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The Natural History Museum has selected 25 photos that will be voted on by the public to win the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award.
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Once-In-A-Lifetime Auction Of Untouched 100-Island Archipelago
30 Nov 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The islands have remained uninhabited and totally untouched by human activity, but now Sotheby’s has been entrusted with auctioning off this extraordinary destination.
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“No Mohair. Keep Your F****** Promise”: People Are Raging At H&M
03 Nov 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
H&M is catching major heat after deciding to reintroduce mohair products in their latest fashion lines despite once promising that they would never use the fabric again.
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Lunchtime Viewing: Cape Town Has A Serious Snare Problem [Video]
26 Oct 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In and around the Cape peninsula, poachers actively target smaller wild animals through the use of snares.
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South African Shines In Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Competition [Images]
13 Oct 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
This poignant moment, titled “Ndakasi’s passing”, was captured by Brent Stirton, a Durbanite now working in New York.
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Cape Town Beaut Among 2022 Ocean Photographer Of The Year Winners
06 Oct 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The Ocean Photographer of the Year aims to acknowledge the work photographers put into shining a light on the beauty of the ocean, as well as the threats it faces.
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First-Of-Its-Kind Hostage Situation As Ransom Demanded For Chimps
23 Sep 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The kidnappers are holding the animals, aged between two and five, hostage and demanding a six-figure ransom.
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It’s Not Only Money That Drives Rhino Poachers
07 Sep 2022 by Kiernan / No Comments
While the potential riches of the lucrative rhino horn trade are the main driving factor, it’s not the only consideration.
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Steve Irwin ‘Death Tape’ Mystery Won’t Go Away
06 Sep 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Authorities say they gave Irwin’s widow, Terri, a copy of the video and destroyed the rest. She destroyed her copy but believes that there is still one out there.
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We Break Briefly To Enjoy Snaps From The 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards
25 Aug 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Whether it’s baby animals playing silly buggers or adults being goofballs, the early entries for the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards show the lighter side of nature.
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Rare Footage Of SA Rhino Birth And First Steps [Video]
16 Aug 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Mpumalanga’s Care for Wild Rhino Sanctuary released a heart-warming video of the baby popping out and promptly taking its first steps.
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Chaos As Rescuers Try Save Beluga Whale Cruising River Seine In Paris [Video]
08 Aug 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The four-metre whale was first seen on Wednesday between Paris and the city of Rouen in Normandy with a few signs that it could be starving to death.
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Emmanuel The Emu Is Everybody’s Favourite Farm Animal [Videos]
20 Jul 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
In most of the videos, a 29-year-old farm caretaker and TikTok documentarian can be heard scolding the emu with the classic ring of “Emmanuel, don’t do it!”
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Friday Fun – Watch This Pangolin Thoroughly Enjoying A Muddy Swim [Video]
15 Jul 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You’ll be hard-pressed to find an animal that enjoys a refreshing swim more than Ditsi, a Temminck’s pangolin being rehabilitated at Manyoni Private Game Reserve.
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Astonishing: Perfectly Preserved Baby Woolly Mammoth Found [Images]
04 Jul 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
She was chanced upon by a gold miner named Travis Mudry, astoundingly preserved over all those years thanks to the muddy permafrost tomb that she lay in.
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Jozi’s Sulphuric Stink Is Worrying The Air Pollution Experts Now
14 Jun 2022 by Paula / No Comments
The quality of Jo’burg’s air came under the microscope this week, after the city of gold erupted in pockets of 24-carat stench.
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Local Researchers Explain That Mass Cape Seal Die-Off That Started In September Last Year
13 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
You might have noticed a seal carcass or two yourself somewhere along the Western Cape’s coastline as early as September, which is when researchers identified the mysterious wave of Cape fur seals’ deaths.
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Watch Planet Earth Change Right Before Your Eyes
13 Jun 2022 by Paula / No Comments
A new innovation from the Google Earth team, in collaboration with the World Resources Institute, means that now users can watch the face of the earth morph and alter in real-time.
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Cyril Explains The Plan For Eskom / Load Shedding
10 Jun 2022 by Paula / No Comments
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that South Africa is on the precipice of instituting significant changes in the country’s flagging electricity sector
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This Man Could Be SA’s Least Creative Rhino Horn Smuggler
27 May 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A suspect was arrested at OR Tambo International Airport yesterday while trying to smuggle rhino horn out of the country.
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Notorious SA Rhino-Poaching Brothers Finally Sent To Jail
06 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Two notorious “Boere rhino-horn mafia” members have been hit with jail sentences for a devastating poaching spree.
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What It Might Look Like To Be Gobbled Up By A Shark [Video]
21 Apr 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
A self-proclaimed pirate, cinematographer, and conservationist’s first-hand footage of a shark chomping down on a camera is fascinating.
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Sneak Peek At Entries For This Year’s Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards [Images]
05 Apr 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Conservation through humour – that’s the focus of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, “most probably the world’s funniest photography competition”.
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The South African Poaching Problem Flying Under The Radar [Video]
10 Mar 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Chances are that when you hear the word ‘poaching’ you think of rhinos. Sadly, they’re far from the only species whose survival is under threat.
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Bees, Beetles, And Mozzies – Fantastic Insect Facts For A Rainy Day
02 Mar 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Besides making up almost half of the animal kingdom and being an integral part of the ecosystem, insects are also fascinatingly dynamic and bizarre.
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