The scientist manufactures roof tiles and other construction materials from plastic and glass waste in Kenya.

Animal campaigners demanded on Friday that a Botswana hunter’s licence be revoked after an elephant was killed despite being protected, raising tensions over the country’s new hunting rules.

Doting killer whale grandmothers help their grand calves survive, particularly in times of food scarcity, scientists have reported.

Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who became the voice of conscience for a generation facing the climate change emergency, has been named as Time magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year.

Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who became the voice of conscience for a generation facing the climate change emergency, has been named as Time magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year.

This is an incredibly rare and beautifully captured encounter between a cute baby nyala who goes head to head with a leopard – quite literally!

Jazz the giraffe passed away on Friday after melting people’s hearts with his budding friendship with Hunter the guard dog.

A Mozambique court has sentenced 10 poachers to 16 years in jail after they were caught hunting illegally in a national park.

Indonesia’s fabled island is running out of water, with monsoon rains delayed and the tourist industry expanding.

Five tigers that narrowly survived a harrowing journey across Europe before being impounded at the Polish border, have arrived at an animal shelter in southeastern Spain.

The cruise industry, long criticised for polluting the environment, is slowly trying to go greener by exploring new technologies, from hybrid solutions to high-tech sails.

The swimsuit-clad tourists leap into the icy water, gasping at the shock, and startling a gaggle of penguins.

A fire tore through a barn in a safari park in the US state of Ohio Thursday night, killing several animals including three giraffes, according to park officials and local media.

The year is winding down and the December holidays are upon us.  To celebrate, CapeNature is giving away a prize every day for 12 days, from 12-23 December 2019. 12 December Prize: Family All Parks Cluster Wild Card worth R1 380! How to ENTER: Step 1: Subscribe to the CapeNature newsletter here if you’re not already a […]

Radioactive waste storage facilities at nuclear power station Koeberg will fill up next year, the power utility Eskom said Tuesday, adding it has begun creating extra space.

A hyena stumbled upon some forgotten meat up in a tree, but didn’t quite have the right balance for this special meal.

Pieter Holtzhausen was saddened to learn about the fire which devastated the small town of Wupperthal, near the Cederburg Wilderness Area in early 2019. Many homes and businesses were completely destroyed and many residents of the town lost virtually everything that they owned. He decided to embark on a run from Stellenbosch to Wupperthal to raise public awareness and […]

World Fisheries Day is celebrated every year on 21 November throughout the world by fishing communities. The day helps to highlight the critical importance of fish and the lives they sustain, both in and out of water. Fisheries play an integral role in sustaining not only human lives but also aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. More […]

A Sumatran elephant has been found decapitated with its tusks ripped off in an apparent poaching of the critically endangered subspecies, an Indonesian conservation official has said.

A leopard and a python were caught on video in a brawl in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.

The objective of a protected area management plan is to ensure that the protection, conservation and management of the reserve is consistent with the objectives of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, Act 57 of 2003 (NEM:PAA) (as amended) and section 21 of the World Heritage Convention Act, Act 49 of 1999. The draft […]