EditorialEXCLUSIVE: An American respected as a rhinoceros trade activist has been arrested after a huge police raid on his South African conservation ranch found 26 dead and rotting rhino carcasses and ten illegal horns.
EditorialA view of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's wildlife farm in Bela-Bela, Limpopo province, South Africa, on June 18, 2022. (Joao Silva/The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by Chris Collingridge shows James Foster and Marie Dacke performing orientation experiments at a dark-sky site in rural Limpopo, South Africa, with a dung beetle. Humans aren’t the only species that navigate by starlight. Animals from birds to dung beetles may do it, too — and might become disoriented as our city lights drown out the heavens. (Chris Collingridge via The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by Chris Collingridge shows James Foster and Marie Dacke performing orientation experiments at a dark-sky site in rural Limpopo, South Africa, with a dung beetle. Humans aren’t the only species that navigate by starlight. Animals from birds to dung beetles may do it, too — and might become disoriented as our city lights drown out the heavens. (Chris Collingridge via The New York Times)
EditorialEXCLUSIVE: ** WARNING: Contains Graphic Content ** A THIRD lion pride has been brutally butchered in a MONTH in South Africa by evil poachers who hacked off their heads and paws and stole them to be used to make black magic potions.
EditorialTHE PORTUGUESE ATTACK ON THE BRITISH AT BEIRA, EAST AFRICA: One minute after the Tamega fired the first shot; the Limpopo full of armed men has been run up alongside the Agnes, and is threatening her with a quick-firing shell-gun on her bow.