Orphaned gorillas rescued in Gabon
Six young gorillas, rescued from the illegal bush meat trade, have begun new independent lives on a lagoon island just outside Loango National Park in Gabon.
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Tag: Wildlife & Conservation
Nkomazi Game Reserve welcomes two male cheetahs
Two male cheetahs rescued from a cattle ranch in Limpopo Province by the De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Trust were recently released into Nkomazi Game Reserve in Badplaas, Mpumalanga; the latest Game Reserve launched by Dubai World Africa.
Meet Obama - Uganda's first rhino calf in 27 years
Uganda has its own rhinos again - the first calf in 27 years was born recently at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary in Nakasongola district, central Uganda. The new arrival brings hope that the magnificent animal, now extinct in the country's wilds, will thrive once again.
Voluntour - or is that voluntweet?
Acacia Adventure Holidays are launching a 5-day "tweet voluntour" starting today, Thursday 23 July, with volunteers twittering from Zimbabwe.
Join the Great Gorilla Run in London!
Go ape for a day and enter the Great Gorilla Run 2009! Thousands of people dressed as gorillas will be running 7km through London on September 26 to help save the endangered species from extinction.
Table Mountain makes it to final of New 7 Wonders of Nature
Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa has made it into the final round of the New 7 Wonders of Nature contest beating the Atacama Desert in Chile, Azure Window in Malta and the Rock of Aphrodite in Cyprus for a spot on the shortlist.
Mozambique's unmapped Mount Mabu explored
Africa is once again proving to be a gift to the natural world. Mount Mabu in Mozambique was an untouched paradise until a team of scientists explored it a few months ago. The previously unmapped forest is a conservationist's dream and have yielded rare species of birds, reptiles and insects, some of which are found nowhere else.
