Is a Smart Gate the Key to Habitat Connectivity?News 06.04.2025In South Africa, an unlikely quartet’s clever contraption could help connect elephants’ fragmented habitat.
Toads on the RoadsPhoto Essay 01.23.2025South Africa is the only place in the world where the endangered western leopard toad can be found. Can locals learn to coexist with—and conserve—their vulnerable amphibian neighbors?
Let’s Get TogetherSpotlight 12.24.2024In a harsh southern African habitat, a small mongoose finds safety in numbers.
Clear Water RevivalPhoto Essay 05.02.2022In a biodiversity wonderland hardly known outside South Africa, a decades-long effort to restore native fish and their streams is starting to pay off—but new trouble could undermine this fragile comeback.
Are You My Allomother?Spotlight 10.19.2017A newborn elephant’s aunts, sisters, and cousins all lend a helping trunk to support the newest member of their clan.
Catch of the DaySpotlight 06.07.2017Octopus is on the menu for this Cape fur seal—and the powerful predator has developed a surprisingly effective method for preparing its meal.
The Return of JawsSpotlight 11.29.2016A brave fisherman drags a mighty fish-out-of-water back to the relative safety of the sea.
Rhino RelocationSpotlight 05.10.2016To protect rhinos from poachers, conservation workers have taken to the air to move these massive animals quickly and efficiently to safer ground.
