A Photographer Reveals How a Shrinking African Landscape Leaves Little Room for Animals to Survive Nick Brandt’s new work shows people and animals alike swept away in a tide of progress.

The baby African pancake tortoise's birth was announced on June 10. The zoo then turned to TODAY.com readers to select the ...

A Travel + Leisure A-List advisor dishes on how to go beyond wildlife spotting in East Africa. Kenya and Tanzania, the East African countries most often chosen for safari, are justifiably famous for ...

There is something profoundly iconic, mythological even, about the animals of East and southern Africa. There is also something deeply, ...

Elephant poaching is an ongoing problem throughout Africa as poachers develop sneakier tactics for collecting their trophies. On the other hand, efforts to deter elephant poaching or at least catch ...

Conservationists fear animal poaching will go up in Africa during the ... Virginia-based nonprofit has been helping create community-owned conservancies in East and Southern Africa that provide ...

Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is almost as caustic as ammonia. Some life-forms thrive there nevertheless.

Jackals, the tricksters of traditional folklore, have fooled us yet again. The golden jackal, which lives in East Africa and Eurasia, is actually two distantly related species—and one of them is ...

Once widespread across the continent, honey hunting with honeyguides is now practiced by just a few ethnic groups in East Africa, particularly in rural areas of Mozambique, Tanzania, and Kenya.

Two New Species of Semi-Aquatic Mice Identified in East African Rainforests ... which they use to hunt aquatic animals like insect larvae and tadpoles,” Giarla tells Gizmodo in an email. “… ...