Pangolins have long been sustainably harvested by local communities for their meat and scales, but today the burgeoning trade in these mammals has reached crisis point.
Pocket Guide: Wild Flowers of South Africa covers some 260 flowers representing all of the regions major vegetation types: Accounts are conveniently organised by flower colour.
Comprehensively revised, expanded and updated, this compact guide makes the ideal travelling companion on trips to the wildlife areas and nature reserves of East Africa.
Pocket Guide: Wild Flowers of South Africa covers some 260 flowers representing all of the regions major vegetation types: Accounts are conveniently organised by flower colour.
Ninety percent of the worlds megafauna (its larger creatures) have disappeared since humans migrated from Africa and fanned out across the rest of the world.
This lively, jam-packed book introduces kids to more than 60 bird groups found in southern Africa: long-legged flamingos, speedy falcons, jewel-like sunbirds, plucky hornbills and many more.
Comprehensively revised, expanded and updated, this compact guide makes the ideal travelling companion on trips to the wildlife areas and nature reserves of East Africa.
Pocket Guide: Insects of South Africa covers both common and interesting insects from South Africa, making it possible to identify a wide range of local species.
When wildlife conservationist Richard Peirce learnt about the targeting of three private game reserves in the Western Cape in 2011 and the butchery of some of their rhinos, he embarked on a crusade to raise public awareness about the horrors of rhino poaching.
Great White sharks, attracted by an offshore seal colony, have brought success to the adjacent fishing village of Gansbaai along the southern African coast.
Southern Africa has some of the best whale and dolphin watching opportunities in the world, with over half of the worlds species being found in our waters.
'Enthralling' Daily MailIn 1998, Francoise Malby-Anthony founded a game reserve with her late husband, dedicating their lives to the protection of these beautiful, troubled animals.
From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea where the sea blazes with oil flares, across two continents and fourteen countries - this epic journey is nothing to swallows, they do it twice a year.
A Short History of the World in 50 Animals provides a new perspective on the grand sweep of our planets making, taking readers from the time of the dinosaurs to the time of Dolly, the first cloned mammal.
A love of birds has always been an important part of the British way of life but in wartime birds came into their own, helping to define our national identity.
