Under heavy sanctions following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia stepped up its courting of African governments with offers of military cooperation, weapons, grain and fertilizers. It’s also ...

During years of scarce fish, African penguins crowd into the same areas as commercial fishing vessels, heightening competition for dwindling prey. A new metric called “overlap intensity” shows how ...

African penguins are running out of room to hunt. As industrial fishing fleets sweep through the same coastal waters, the ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – They're cute, knee-high, they bray like donkeys and are a tourist attraction near Cape Town. But African Penguins — the continent's only species of the flightless bird — are ...

LAMBERT'S BAY, South Africa – The boats line up along the jetty, bobbing in the cold south Atlantic waters, to bring in the day's catch in the early afternoon. The long, thin silver snoek fish is one ...

To my right, the first shafts of daylight spread across the bush as the sun climbed above the Lebombo Mountains. A slope-shouldered hyena shuffled toward his lair after an active night. It was ...

African waters have been contributing to the global supply of fish for years, with three of the four most productive marine ecosystems in the world near the continent. African countries’ Exclusive ...

Despite the efforts of many of the 34 coastal African nations, one in four fish is still caught illegally. — The illicit trade in the marine resources of West Africa is estimated to cost the region ...

The mounting pressure for these penguins meant they became the first in the world to be declared critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2024. It’s ...

Inside China’s Rare Earth Empire: The Hidden Costs in Myanmar With roughly 50 percent of its fish stocks fully exploited, 25 percent over-exploited and the other 25 percent completely collapsed, it’s ...

KZN fishing delivers solid action ahead of Black Friday weekend. Grey sharks and dorado bite on the coast while rising dam ...

Industrial fleets from countries around the world have been increasingly fishing in African waters, but with climate change and increasing pollution threatening Africa's fish stocks, there is a ...