The leaves, leathery, paper-thin and earthy like fresh beet root, lend themselves well to eru stew, a staple of the Cameroonian diet. Traditional eru stew begins with simmering a pot full of fresh ...

Locally adapted crop varieties developed and passed down by farmers over generations (scientifically known as landraces) are already disappearing from farms across Africa ...

The urine of chimpanzees contains high levels of alcohol byproduct, most likely because the chimps regularly gorge themselves on fermented fruit, according to a new paper published in the journal ...

New Zealand conservationists have been fighting for years to keep the kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot, from disappearing, with intensive conservation efforts.

African indigenous food groups present an exciting area to explore when it comes to taste and nutrition. They may even offer ...

Cape Town, in South Africa, is famous for its dramatic mountains and coastline, but its greatest treasure lies in the plants that carpet its slopes and valleys. Table Mountain National Park and its ...

Bernard Monnaapula, my guide at Gomoti Plains, and I have been trailing a male leopard across the Okavango Delta for more than an hour when we realize it has led us to an unexpected prize: African ...

Artificial light is one of the most ingrained features of modern life. For humans, light after dark offers convenience and a sense of safety. For wildlife, it's a growing environmental disturbance.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Under the apricot clouds of a South African dawn, I stand in front of the Hole in the Wall — an island rock ...

For the first time, “hyper-carnivorous” African wild dogs have been recorded eating fruit, a behavior so far documented only in a small part of Botswana’s wildlife-rich Okavango Delta. The wild dogs ...

An African elephant is seen calmly exploring its natural surroundings. A quiet wildlife moment showing detail, scale, and natural behavior in the wild. Alex Pretti spotted on camera moments before ...