I am an African living in Nairobi, Kenya, who makes films about my continent’s wildlife. But as a species, wildlife filmmakers from Africa are rarer than mountain gorillas. This needs to change. We ...

Africa is the last stand for wildlife. That is how Peter and Corie Knights describe the continent they have devoted their ...

Analysis - Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number of humans living on the planet is increasing fast, other great ...

Editor’s Note: Robert Mwinyihali is the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Central Africa urban bushmeat coordinator, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Jean Paul Kibambe is the WCS country ...

African Parks Network (APN) recently announced it would formally take over the management of the Benin side of W National Park, which comprises a major portion of the largest intact ecosystem in West ...

Wildlife photographer Dolph Volker experienced an extraordinary encounter when a cheetah named Eden rested her head on him at ...

MOMBASA, Kenya — Iconic African wildlife such as elephants, big cats and rosewood trees will be central to discussions of the World Wildlife Conference slated for Panama later this year. The standing ...

During times of war, wild animals are more likely to be hunted or displaced from their natural habitat by humans seeking shelter. Rates of ivory poaching goes up and animal reproduction declines. From ...

MOMBASA, Kenya — Africa’s national parks, home to thousands of wildlife species such as lions, elephants and buffaloes, are increasingly threatened by below-average rainfall and new infrastructure ...