School holidays in Cape Town offer art workshops, penguins, beaches and lots of fun for young children and teenagers alike.

The deaths of adult seabirds are of great concern as most species only start to breed at 3 to 10 years of age, and most ...

In wonderful Cape Town, reporter Richard Price searched out whales and tasted delicious wines whilst looking out at exquisite ...

Experts warn that South Africa is on the brink of an avian influenza disaster, urging the government to act swiftly to ...

The department of forestry, fisheries and environment has confirmed the presence of the high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus on South Africa’s sub-Antarctic territory of Marion Island.

penguin tourism benefits have been largely confined to the two land colonies in the Western Cape, with by far the greater contribution coming from Simon's Town. Bird Island in Algoa Bay has ...

The islands of Tristan da Cunha are the most remote populated place on the planet which can only be reached by a six-day ship ...

Bird conservation groups that pushed for the protection ... according to a copy. They include Robben Island about 10 ...

The virus has claimed 150 wandering albatross chicks, but adults in other species are a bigger concern, says the Department ...

A South African court has barred commercial fishing at key breeding colonies for African penguins for 10 years.

The boundaries of the new fishing closures achieve “the sweet spot between benefits to penguins and costs to [fishing] industry,” Kate Handley, executive director of Cape Town-based nonprofit ...

Birds are often associated with flight, but not all of them take to the skies. Around 60 species — fewer than 1% of all bird ...