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competitions
•  A Cape Union Mart voucher.
•  A pair of Lynx binoculars.
•  A book from Struik Nature.
•  A Takalani sunbird feeder.

travel with us
•  To Mana Pools in Zimbabwe.
•  To witness Kenya’s Mara migration.
•  On photographic safaris in South Africa and Kenya.

Hidden talents

It’s a wildlife photographer’s dream to be able to forget the long lenses, and a well-positioned hide at a waterhole allows them to do just that. The results open up a whole new perspective on Africa’s animals and birds.

Black-footed lightning

Being small, shy and skittish makes southern Africa’s black-footed cat a challenging – yet very rewarding – subject for study.

Sea saw

Once abundant but now virtually absent, the weird and wonderful sawfish has cultural significance for islanders in West Africa

Variations on a theme

A starling is a starling is definitely not a starling… These colourful extroverts cannot all be tarred with the same glossy brush.

Blombos Cave: a capsule in time

Humans conceptualised and created enhancements to their lives earlier than had been thought – and they did so in a cave at the tip of Africa.

A lioness called Marilyn

A peek into the daily life of an Etosha lioness.

Pelican patrol

Protecting some of South Africa’s most vulnerable seabirds means keeping another threatened species, the great white pelican, away from their chicks.

Mauritius: island of the heart

Forget the beaches and head to this tropical isle for its wealth of natural history.