South African conservation nonprofit buys rhino breeding farm, plans to rewild 2,000 animals In this Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015, file photo, rhinos walk in the Hluhluwe Game Reserve in South Africa.

PRETORIA, South Africa, October 25, 2019 (ENS) – By the stroke of a legislative pen, a list of iconic and, in some cases, endangered wild animals can now be manipulated as farming stock.

Lions will, given opportunity and a degree of hunger, eat you. So to be no more than 5 yards from two 330-pound lionesses and their two cubs on one side of the windowless safari truck, and two 400-… ...

LONDON -- South African Conservation Group African Parks has announced it is set to release 2,000 southern white rhinos into the wild in what is set to be one of Africa’s largest rewilding ...

By Ryan Truscott JOHANNESBURG — South Africa is a hub for the international pet trade, with thousands of animals exported each year. Many of these are exotic birds and mammals like parrots and ...

Conservationists have released five vultures back into the wild on a mountain range in South Africa after they were rescued ...

A South African study of infected zoo lions spurs worries about the virus spreading in the wild. The lions caught the coronavirus from their handlers and showed severe symptoms.

At 66, York has been involved in breeding and hunting for decades. After he emigrated from his native Zimbabwe in 1980, he bred prize cattle for beef in South Africa’s northern grasslands. He ...

Katja Koeppel treats a panther at the Onderstepoort Wildlife Sanctuary Clinic in South Africa. The clinic is able to house large animals, such as giraffes and gorillas, at the facility. (Gunter Nowak) ...

The animals, both cubs and adults, are among 200 that have been rescued from the circus industry in Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia since 2018.