BIRD BARRIERS Africa’s waterbirds fly the gauntlet of hunger, disease, bullets and human ‘development’ 5 min 0 By Tony Carnie
ISS TODAY Saving the pancake tortoise, a ‘living emblem’ of Kenya’s natural heritage 4 min 0 By Halkano Wario and Noor Ali
BOOK REVIEW The spectre of the Anthropocene haunts an insightful journey into our wild past 6 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
GRISLY BUSINESS Giraffes under siege: The silent crisis of trophy hunting and its threat to survival 6 min 8 By Don Pinnock
THE CONVERSATION Humans could all be gone in 100 years if we stopped having babies 4 min 4 By Michael A Little
IN THE CROSSHAIRS How the world’s top trophy hunters are killing off leopards 6 min 15 By Don Pinnock
The Conversation First fossil pangolin tracks discovered in South Africa 4 min 0 By Charles Helm and Jan Carlo De Vynck
CRUCIAL STUDY How healthy is the ‘great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River’? 8 min 0 By Yves Vanderhaeghen
MOUNTAIN WONDER Big win for a tiny butterfly in Limpopo — the rare Wolkberg Zulu gets legal protection 5 min 6 By Kristin Engel
ON THE BRINK Botha’s Lark – SA’s most threatened terrestrial bird species likely to become extinct as early as 2025 7 min 4 By Kristin Engel
ENDANGERED SPECIES Lawsuit launched against environment minister in bid to halt African penguin extinction 8 min 27 By Kristin Engel
BUSINESS REFLECTION Loaded for Bear: Rural Africans endure dangerous wildlife relocations folks up north wouldn’t tolerate 5 min 3 By Ed Stoddard
LESSONS FROM THE DODO How science and intuition can work together to save species 11 min 2 By Yves Vanderhaeghen
ANCIENT MARINER The Greenland shark’s slow swim through deep time — and into possible extinction 4 min 1 By Don Pinnock
THE CONVERSATION Should we bring back the dodo? De-extinction is a feel-good story, but these hi-tech replacements aren’t really ‘resurrecting’ species 4 min 1 By Risa Aria Schnebly and Ben A. Minteer
ISS TODAY OP-ED Poor control over plunder of Algeria’s ‘red gold’ sees precious organism facing extinction 4 min 0 By Abdelkader Abderrahmane
ROCK SOLID WARNING A past buried in the Karoo town of Sutherland holds portents for our survival as a species 4 min 1 By Jamie Venter
THE CONVERSATION The world now has 8 billion people - how evolution made it happen 4 min 1 By Matthew Wills
STATE OF THE PLANET It’s Code Red for the survival of all wild creatures — and ultimately humanity 5 min 1 By Don Pinnock
