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Finland: Wolves Last week we brought you the story of European brown bears that Bertus tracked down on his trip to Finland. This week we bring you another instalment of his northern hemisphere adventure in…
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Finland: bears The largest biome on Earth, apart from the ocean, is the Taiga, or boreal forests covering massive areas in North America and Eurasia. On his recent trip to Finland, Bertus discovered some of…
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Spervuur: leopards We end the Spervuur inserts for the season with a bang as those powerful and magnificent spotted cats saunter in front of our cameras lenses. Leopards are exceptionally resourceful animals but sometimes all…
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Hippo relocation: how to move a giant With huge tusks and a grumpy temperament hippos are widely known as one of Africa’s most dangerous mammals. Yet in many places they need to be captured for…
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Wildebure: vultures Able to fly at such immense heights, with home-ranges bigger than an entire country, these very misunderstood birds constantly get a bad rap due to their choice of food. They are in…
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Spervuur: elephants Modern conservation is turning more often to nature for ideas to solve the conflict associated with human-wildlife encounters. As space and natural resources diminish at the hands of human development, this conflict becomes…
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Bees of the garden Route: rising from the ashes Facing challenges from disease, poisons, habitat destruction and now runaway fires… The devastating fires in June this year along the SA’s garden route saw massive destruction…
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Waste water treatment: cutting edge technology One of the biggest challenges imposed on ecosystems is by humans and involves the processing of waste. We produce a lot of different kinds of waste and dump it…
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This week 50|50 comes to you from the banks of the mighty Zambezi River. Join us for a wild adventure of an episode, packed with spectacular African beauty! Finland’s education: nature is…
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Doosbenoud: Mozambique spitting cobra While Christmas is usually a time for celebrations, for Johan Pieterse, a visit from a large cobra last December saw his festivities cut short. He was jolted awake by what he…
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