When it comes to African wildlife, few things capture the imagination like the Big Five animals. I still remember the first time I saw a rhino. It was about 20 years ago, and I was on my first ever ...

“If you lose any of those animals, Africa loses a part of its soul.” When her small plane touched down on the tarmac near Desert Rhino Camp in Namibia last May, Behati Prinsloo was greeted with a ...

When humans speak up, the little African birds called honeyguides listen—and can understand, a new study confirms for the first time. Honeyguides in northern Mozambique realize that when a man makes a ...

The populations of some of Africa’s most iconic wildlife have been bouncing back thanks to decades of conservation efforts. But activists are warning that climate change and human activity are ...

JOHANNESBURG -- Desperate times call for desperate measures, and with rhino numbers plummeting, the situation is so desperate that conservationists are cutting off the animals' horns in a bid to ...

Africa is home to some of the most diverse and captivating wildlife on Earth. Sweeping savannas, lush wetlands, and rugged deserts provide the backdrop for encounters with animals found nowhere else.

From lappet-faced vultures with nine-foot wingspans to long-crested eagles with spiky mohawks, Africa’s raptors are undeniably spectacular birds. But these predators are fast disappearing from the ...

The Abyssinian delegate had to consult his government, but representatives of Great Britain, Belgium, Egypt, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, the Union of South Africa and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ...

It started with what seemed to be an ordinary dead chimpanzee. But when Fabian Leendertz, head of epidemiology and highly pathogenic microorganisms at the Robert Koch Institute in Germany, and his ...

A medical worker sprays people being discharged from the Island Clinic Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia, on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File) LONDON (AP) — The number ...

LONDON – The number of outbreaks of diseases that jumped from animals to humans in Africa has surged by more than 60% in the last decade, the World Health Organization said, a worrying sign the planet ...