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Landscape: Stretching across a vast arid landscape of red dunes, fossil riverbeds and open savannahs, the park protects one of southern Africa’s most intact desert ecosystems. Photos: African Parks
AFRICAN PARKS

Conservation drive crosses borders

An EU-funded initiative has been launched in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, shared by South Africa and Botswana and one of southern Africa’s most important ecosystems

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
A group of captive-bred southern white rhino have been successfully moved to their new home at the Dinokeng Game Reserve
AFRICAN PARKS

Southern white rhinos find new home at Gauteng’s Dinokeng Game Reserve

The rhinos previously belonged to controversial rhino breeder John Hume

  • Sheree Bega
3 min read
A Dugong in Bazaruto Archipelago National Park, Mozambique. (Andrea Marshall)
AFRICA

Why Mozambique is tracking Dugong movements with satellite technology

Interest in dugong conservation is surging beyond Mozambique, with regional initiatives being launched to protect the sea mammals

  • Bonface Orucho
4 min read
The animals, formerly owned by rhino breeder John Hume, are expected to significantly boost biodiversity in their new home. Photo: Michael Dexter
AFRICAN PARKS

120 captive rhinos moved to the Greater Kruger wild

The animals, formerly owned by rhino breeder John Hume, are expected to significantly boost biodiversity in their new home

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
The rhinos, which are part of the 2 000 that belonged to controversial breeder John Hume, have now been relocated to a conservancy in KwaZulu-Natal
JOHN HUM

40 dehorned rhinos relocated in bid to ‘rewild’ captive-bred animals

The rhinos, which are part of the 2 000 that belonged to controversial breeder John Hume, have now been relocated to a conservancy in KwaZulu-Natal

  • Sheree Bega
4 min read
De-horned rhinos roam on the field at John Hume’s Rhino Ranch in Klerksdorp, in the North Western Province of South Africa, on February 3, 2016. Picture: MUJAHID SAFODIEN / AFP
AFRICAN PARKS

Lifeline for John Hume’s 2 000 rhinos

African Parks steps in as new owner of Platinum Rhino plans to rewild the rhinos and offspring over the next decade

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
Giraffe in the boma before being released into the wild in Iona National Park, Angola. Photo by Casey Crafford
AFRICAN PARKS

Fourteen giraffes find new home in Angola

The animals have been successfully moved from Namibia in an effort to restore ecological balance

  • Lesego Chepape
4 min read
Sixteen southern white rhinos have been moved from &Beyond Phinda Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal to Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)
AMP BEYOND

KZN rhinos find new home in DRC’s Garamba National Park

Northern white rhino are considered extinct in the DRC, and the translocation will help to restore the population and the ecological balance in Garamba

  • Lesego Chepape
4 min read
Defenders: The Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has more than 680 rangers from local villages. They are employed by the Congolese National Park Authority to protect it from poachers and logging but militia groups have killed more than 200 rangers since 1925. Photo: Alexis Huguet/AFP
AFRICA

Save Africa from conservationists

Indigenous peoples know how to conserve biodiversity far better than any so-called experts in the capitalist Global North

  • Aby L Sène
6 min read