Conservation

Seventy white rhinos relocated from South Africa to Rwanda’s Akagera National Park

Translocated rhino rewild, Akagera Park Rwanda Seventy southern white rhinos from South Africa's Munywana Conservancy have been relocated to Rwanda’s Akagera National Park. The move was part of a ten-year plan to rewild rhinos to safe, suitable, and well-managed protected areas of Africa. The rhinos represent around 15 percent of the world’s total population of white rhinos. According to Al Jazeera, the journey, spanning over 3,400 km and involving both road […]

12 June, 2025 14

Namibia

Illegal Fishing: 10 Caught in Restricted Area in Terrace Bay

The Fisheries ministry has confirmed that 10 fishermen were caught illegally fishing in a restricted area at Terrace Bay. Among them, two are Namibians, while the rest are South African nationals. The group had already caught 18 cod before being fined a total of N$63,000. We asked Hafeni Mungungu, the Director Responsible for Monitoring, Control, and Surveillance, whether illegal fishing is prevalent in Namibia.

14 February, 2025 94

Namibia

Ministry Of Environment Launches Project to Address Human-Wildlife Conflict

The Environment, Forestry and Tourism ministry is gearing up to implement a groundbreaking initiative aimed at reducing human-wildlife conflict and tackling wildlife crime across three critical landscapes in Namibia. The Integrated Approach to Proactive Management of Human-Wildlife Conflict and Wildlife Crime Project is expected to directly benefit 4,520 individuals including 2,300 men and 2,220 women while indirectly impacting an additional 18,100 people inclusive of 7,900 men and 10,200 […]

10 January, 2025 73

Environment

Cheetah Conservation Fund hosts conservation genetics conference

The Cheetah Conservation Fund is hosting the ‘ConGen Global’ which is an international conference covering the most recent advances in conservation genetics. From 5-15 January 2025, the intensive 9-day practicum is dedicated to the application of genomic technologies towards the conservation of biodiversity. CCF’s genetic research played a key role in up-listing the subspecies of cheetah in the Horn African to ‘Endangered’ status on the IUNC Red List. The Funds […]

8 January, 2025 48

Namibia

Government promotes sustainable water use in Khomas

The Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform has started a campaign in the Khomas Region, to raise awareness about managing water resources. This as the Water Resources Management Act, which began on 29 August 2023, and will be implemented by February 2025. Ministry spokesperson, Simon Nghipandulwa.

31 October, 2024 49

Africa

Zimbabwe considers elephant culling for food amid drought

Zimbabwe is considering culling elephants for the first time since 1988 as the country grapples with a devastating drought. Environment Minister Sithembiso Nyoni told lawmakers in Mount Hampden, near Harare, that discussions are underway to cull elephants and distribute the meat to drought-stricken communities in need of protein. This move comes as Zimbabwe faces one of the worst droughts in recent decades, leaving many communities food insecure. According to Bloomberg […]

12 September, 2024 94

Entertainment

More than just a beauty queen: Miss International South Africa, Belindé Schreuder, is empowering young women across the country as she prepares for the international leg in Japan later this year

Gone are the days when beauty pageants were all about external beauty. Over time these events have become multidimensional. Not only do they look at women as a whole, taking into account personality, intelligence and authenticity, but they identify women who have what it takes to serve the greater community. Belindé Schreuder is one such woman and the current title holder of Miss International South Africa. Crowned on 20 […]

8 August, 2024 187

Africa

Tanzania evicting tens of thousands of Maasai: HRW

Tanzania is forcibly evicting tens of thousands of Maasai from their ancestral lands, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Wednesday, claiming that government rangers beat some members of the community with impunity. Long-standing tensions between the authorities and the nomadic community have sometimes resulted in deadly clashes, after the government launched a programme beginning in 2022 to relocate some 82,000 people from the world-renowned Ngorongoro […]

31 July, 2024 34

Environment

New fish found off Madagascar: remarkable long-nosed skate discovered in the deep ocean

By Simon Weigmann, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change The Madagascar Ridge, in the southwestern Indian Ocean, is a remote, elevated area of seabed south of Madagascar. In 2016, my colleagues and I discovered a new cartilaginous fish species in its deep waters; a catshark that we named Bach’s catshark (Bythaelurus bachi) after German composer Johann Sebastian Bach. (In 2017 we discovered another new […]

25 July, 2024 59