Thursday, February 6, 2025

The Leopard: Lost and Found

By Santiago Legarre One cold July morning of 2019 I left Basecamp Masai Mara very early with Dennis, a new and eager Maasai guide. As...

China Raises Protection For Pangolins By Removing Scales From Medicine List

The latest version of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia for 2020 does not include pangolins, which means the mammals will no longer be used in traditional...

Best of Two Worlds on Safari

By Santiago Legarre One time I went out on a game drive in the Maasai Mara. As we drove by the Mara River, it was...

Amboseli from Up in the Air

By Santiago Legarre An invitation from Ol Tukai Lodge made my latest visit to Amboseli National Park possible. In a forthcoming contribution to the October...

African Ranger Awards: Feting Wardens while Enabling Traffickers?

By Karl Ammann When researching the illegal wildlife trade, very often some tentacles lead back to South Africa.  Not only when it comes to rhino...

Kenya’s Single Use Plastic Ban in Protected Areas Takes Effect

Nairobi, June 5 - Kenya is marking the 2020 World Environment Day by banning single-use plastic in protected natural areas. Plastic pollution is one of...

One of the last ‘giant tusker’ elephants killed

Photo: tsavotrust.org Satao Giant Tusker to whom Satao II  One of Africa's rare giant tusker elephants has been killed by poachers in Tsavo...

Kenya’s Food Security Threatened by Locust Infestation

A desert locust infestation- the worst in 25 years- is spreading through Northern Kenya after wreaking havoc in Somalia and Ethiopia, posing a significant...

What does COVID-19 have to do with nature? These 5 articles explain

Editor’s note: The COVID-19 pandemic has spread around the world at lightning speed, infecting more than 1,800,000 people and killing more than 113,000 people to...

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The Forgotten Gems of Marsabit National Park

By Santiago Legarre In the early 20th century, newlyweds Martin and Osa Johnson left the United States on an...

Over One-Third of World’s Trees at Risk of Extinction – IUCN

NAIROBI, Oct 29 (Swara)—In a groundbreaking revelation, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has reported that 38 per cent of...

Good News for Samburu: Larsens is back!

By Santiago Legarre Safari enthusiasts will be pleased to hear that the iconic Larsens...