Nothing soothes the office-scarred soul quite like a night in the open, with a crackling fire and the sounds of nature all around you. What you need is to go cave camping.
The fresh air tastes even sweeter when it’s free, so why not arrange a day trip with the family and go see what nature has to offer?
Almost no rain combined with scorching temperatures has led to shrivelled crops and soaring levels of hunger for tens of millions of people in the Southern Africa region. What else is a desert nation rich in wildlife to do?
Imagine coming across one of these trolls in Newlands Forest. On mushrooms.
The City closed the land-based areas of the Rietvlei section on 11 July 2024 after severe flooding affected roads, trails, picnic areas and boardwalks.
In addition to the dehorning programme, South Africa also implemented a novel approach by injecting radioactive materials into the horns of these animals to curb the threat of poaching.
Two decades ago a new drug was introduced to treat sick cows, and ever since then the vulture population in India has been declining.
Tiger sharks have been recorded to swim nearly 8,500 kilometres in a year, and to get the energy for such an epic swim, the apex predators will eat just about anything, from turtles to dolphins to plastic bottles.
This looks like a scene from the Narnia movies.
The 43-year-old man and his fiancé had allegedly been driving in their own vehicle when they stopped to take pictures of an elephant calf.
Whether it is Botox or a pump-fed waterfall, what’s wrong with a little bit of artificial help now and again to stay beautiful?
The animals are known to be sensitive to trends, with scientists having observed odd new behaviours spreading through a pod like a TikTok challenge, only to be forgotten just as quickly.
There are certain sites that look almost like a milky orange juice.
Surprisingly the only African country to make the top 20 (though Namibia received a fair few nominations), South Africa is undeniably stunning and as such was ranked as the 10th most beautiful country in the world.
While scientists have witnessed the spectacular moment before, this is the first time the event was filmed.
Locals were reported to be ‘delighted’ by the sight.
Nigeria is one of 37 African countries where elephants are still found in the wild, but their numbers are reducing as human activity encroaches on their natural forest habitat.
More than 500 experts from research, veterinary and conservation groups have called on the French president to “end the overexploitation of frogs” and afford the most traded species better protections.
Mice might force 19 of the 28 species of breeding seabirds on the island into local extinction over the next 30 years.
Piercing through layers of snow and ice, the strange structure has been raising eyebrows worldwide.
Heavy rainfall in the area has been blamed for destabilising the ground on the mountains slopes around San Mateo.
The frog is alive, AKA not decaying in death, and yet it has some fungi hitching a ride on its body. Obviously scientists are baffled.
Africa has no native freshwater crayfish species, with the closest ecological equivalent being freshwater crabs.
All over the world, hermit crabs, who are naturally supposed to scavenge shells as armour for their bodies, are turning increasingly to plastic waste instead.
Many experienced trail hikers insist that “the potential is there” to develop Saudi Arabia into “one of the most outstanding hiking destinations in the world.”
Only two northern white rhinos remain on earth, both female. The last male, Sudan, died in 2018, leaving the rhino subspecies doomed to extinction.
Extraordinary drone footage taken by photographer Piet van den Bemd in Antarctica shows two humpback whales producing a bubble net in the shape of a perfect Fibonacci spiral.
If there isn’t an emoji for it, does it even exist?
As most of the rugby-playing nations in the world have come to realise by now, you don’t mess with a springbok.
At around 3,600 metres above sea level, in a place where no roads go, scientists found the exotic prehistoric world new to science.