“I just wanted to send my first-born child to school so that he could get an education and be different from me. I wanted him to have the opportunity which I was denied as a child.”

According to global wild cat conservation organisation Panthera – that has classified leopards as vulnerable – the stealthy, spotted cats have vanished from 65% of their historic range in Africa.

The High Level Panel for wildlife management introduced in 2019 by Barbara Creecy, Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, is a major opportunity to consider alternative and innovative ways to protect and grow endangered species.

Tropical wetlands should be soggy and green, not lands of flaming vegetation.

South Africa is home to around 1,300 of the world’s roughly 7,100 remaining cheetahs. It’s also the only country in the world with significant cheetah population growth, thanks largely to a nongovernmental conservation project that depends on careful and intensive human management of small, fenced-in cheetah populations.

When the elephant arrived in the night, on the hunt for sugarcane, Uthorn Kanthong was waiting for him.