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Endangered animals – there’s more to this than rhinos! Here are some other endangered animals in South Africa, as well as easy ways to contribute towards their conservation.

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Research has confirmed what many experts have been suggesting for decades: ivory poaching selectively drives the evolution of tuskless elephants.

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Birds of prey and vultures (raptors) play a vital role in ecosystems, both as top predators and key scavengers.

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The northern white rhinoceros. The passenger pigeon. The Javan tiger. The golden toad. The Pinta Island tortoise. These are just some of the dozens of land-based vertebrate species that have gone extinct over the past century. Many more will likely follow them into oblivion soon, a team of scientists warns in a new study which makes for sobering reading.

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Today, 11 African canids, from excitable African painted wolves and shrewd jackals to the tiny fox species, hunt the continent’s desert, alpine grassland, savanna and woodland.

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The basics of bongos