Is a Smart Gate the Key to Habitat Connectivity?
In South Africa, an unlikely quartet’s clever contraption could help connect elephants’ fragmented habitat.
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Toads on the Roads
South 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 Together
In a harsh southern African habitat, a small mongoose finds safety in numbers.
Clear Water Revival
In 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.
High Drama
Sometimes the best way out of a sticky situation is up, up and away.
Are You My Allomother?
A newborn elephant's aunts, sisters, and cousins all lend a helping trunk to support the newest member of their clan.
Catch of the Day
Octopus 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 Jaws
A brave fisherman drags a mighty fish-out-of-water back to the relative safety of the sea.
Rhino Relocation
To protect rhinos from poachers, conservation workers have taken to the air to move these massive animals quickly and efficiently to safer ground.
Toads on the Roads
South 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 Together
In a harsh southern African habitat, a small mongoose finds safety in numbers.
Clear Water Revival
In 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.
High Drama
Sometimes the best way out of a sticky situation is up, up and away.
Are You My Allomother?
A newborn elephant's aunts, sisters, and cousins all lend a helping trunk to support the newest member of their clan.
Catch of the Day
Octopus 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 Jaws
A brave fisherman drags a mighty fish-out-of-water back to the relative safety of the sea.
Rhino Relocation
To protect rhinos from poachers, conservation workers have taken to the air to move these massive animals quickly and efficiently to safer ground.