Warning issued as cheetah escapes from Rietvlei Nature Reserve 06 May 2021 - 16:41 The city of Tshwane said it was still unclear how a cheetah escaped from the Rietvlei Nature Reserve. Stock photo. Image: 123RF/Duncan Noakes
A cheetah has escaped from the Rietvlei Nature Reserve, apparently using a hole that smaller animals had dug under a fence.
The City of Tshwane said an Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) team was in the process of trying to capture the cheetah, which escaped on Tuesday.
The city warned visitors to the nature reserve and residents in the surrounding areas to be vigilant and on the lookout for the animal.
Critically endangered blue whale washes up in Walvis Bay
29 Apr 2021
The carcass of a critically endangered Antarctic blue whale that washed up in Walvis Bay this week is the first-ever recorded stranding of this species in Namibia, South Africa and probably on the continent since the end of commercial whaling in 1985, according to conservationists.
The carcass of a critically endangered Antarctic blue whale that washed up in Walvis Bay this week is the first-ever recorded stranding of this species in Namibia, South Africa and probably on the continent since the end of commercial whaling in 1985, according to conservationists.
Blue whales are the largest animals ever known to inhabit the Earth.
Endangered African wild dogs released in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park
By Staff Reporter
Nonhlanhla Hlatshwayo
DURBAN - The Hluhluwe- iMfolozi Park (HiP) has released a newly formed pack of endangered African Wild Dogs into the reserve, with support from Wildlife ACT.
The African Wild Dog, which is also known as the African Painted Dog, is one of the most endangered animals in the world.
Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife spokesperson Musa Mntambo said the wild dogs were kept together, in a boma in iMfolozi, prior to their release into the park.
“The females had split off (dispersed) from another pack in HiP and the males had split off from their pack in Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, in the Northern Cape. The Endangered Wildlife Trust, which is one of Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife and Wildlife ACT’s partners within the KZN Wild Dog Management Group, assisted in bringing the males down to HiP, where they were put in one compartment of the boma and the females were put in the other compartment.
As SA faces a water-scarce future, business must take up the challenge of water stewardship
By Opinion
By: Phillipine Mtikitiki
Situated near the southern parts of Drakensberg, the picturesque village of Matatiele lies 70 kilometres from Kokstad, near the junction of the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and southern Lesotho borders. Broadly translated, Matatiele means “the ducks have flown” in Sotho – a reference to the once water-abundant wetlands and marshes of this area that were home to many wild birds.
Matatiele is symptomatic of a much broader problem in South Africa, with water scarcity reaching alarming levels across our major water catchment basins as climate change begins to have real impact and remote communities feel its far-reaching effects.