Don Pinnock

An aerial survey across the Okavango Delta in Botswana in 2020 discovered clusters of dead elephants. On the ground local conservationists came across a bizarre scene: waterholes littered with what looked like 350 elephant statues in crouched positions, tusks intact. What had killed them?

Every year thousands of children suffer brain damage from not belting up. It's a national crisis, so why aren't alarm bells ringing?

Every year thousands of children suffer brain damage from not belting up. It's a national crisis, so why aren't alarm bells ringing?

Among the top three suppliers to the global wildlife market, South African breeders and exporters exploit loopholes and a lack of enforcement to bypass conservation rules.

From the moment we learnt to count as a species we’ve never stopped – and the world we live in just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

From the moment we learnt to count as a species we've never stopped – and the world we live in just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

In a dark, almost impenetrable forest in southern Uganda live huge, near-mythical creatures which remind us of ourselves.

It had taken Robert Fortune years of extensive planning and three months of arduous travel by boat, sedan chair and on foot disguised as a mandarin. His aim was to reach the black tea hills in the fabled Wuyi Mountains of China and steal tea.

Once a jewel of Zimbabwe’s natural beauty and a playground for Harare’s two million residents, Lake Chivero now tells a story of shady deals, crumbling infrastructure and ecological collapse.

The struggle to ensure kindness and fair treatment of animals – or deny it – will take centre stage this year as hunters, conservationists and government lawmakers face off on welfare, wellbeing and mammal sentience issues.