Authorities in Cape Town, South Africa, have released an updated baboon action plan aimed at reducing conflict between people and baboons, which regularly enter urban areas in search of food. The plan ...

I would like to respond to Fran Gebhardt’s article, “Mistakes of past decades must be rectified or there will be no wild baboons left”, which raises several concerns. Specifically, I object to the ...

A letter by the Wildlife Animal Protection Forum of South Africa to the Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team highlights several critical issues with the task team’s approach, including ...

A recent study finds that a group of caracals in South Africa has become regular seabird hunters, including eating endangered Cape cormorants and African penguins. The dietary shift is the result of ...

An action plan to minimise the amount of time baboons spend in human-dominated environments and prevent further habituation has been agreed to by authorities in the Western Cape. Under the tough new ...

Over the weekend, Cape Peninsula rescue teams faced a surge in hiking emergencies, from heat exhaustion to a tragic fatality.

Much of the coastal area south of Simonstown in the Cape Peninsula was out of bounds and you could not go there without a permit. This was because of the large number of British ships that passed by.

Last week’s article was about an aborted Dutch East India Company (VOC) plan to dig a canal between Table Bay and False Bay in the 1650s to prevent the Khoisan from “trespassing” on territory which ...