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Solar Impulse flies again

The flight set a new absolute world distance record in solar aviation, organisers said.

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Ivory now on poachers’ shopping list

An elephant has been gunned down in the Tembe Elephant Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal - heightening concern of surging black market prices for ivory.

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Twister ‘more powerful than Hiroshima bomb'

The vast tornado that struck an Oklahoma suburb dwarfed even the Hiroshima atomic bomb in its destructive power.

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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said earlier this year that the insecticides posed 'disturbing' risks to bees and other pollinating insects vital for human food production.

EU set to ban pesticides blamed on bee’s decline
April 26 2013 at 09:04

The EU appears set to impose a two-year ban on the use of insecticides blamed for a sharp decline in bee populations.

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BIG BUSINESS: Bigfoot was caught with a hunting rifle and a silencer. He undertook 10 sorties into Kruger National Park looking for rhinos.

Bigfoot versus the rhino
April 25 2013 at 09:45

Hunt on for the elusive poacher with gigantic feet...

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KILLING FIELD: Silencers are used by poachers in their pursuit of rhinos, whose bodies are left where they fall until all that is left are bones. Pictures: Chris Collingridge

Gunning for rhinos
April 25 2013 at 14:05

Where do these guns come from, and who has the know-how and equipment to fit the silencers when it comes to rhino poaching? Shaun Smillie investigates.

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The area around Kabok is poor, and scarred by wartime remnants. This is a typical reed house, different from the brick structures rhino poachers have built for themselves with their new-found wealth. Picture: Chris Collingridge

The town that thrives on rhino horn
April 23 2013 at 14:25

Blood money takes poachers from dirt poor to ‘millionaires’ row.

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The area around Kabok is poor, and scarred by wartime remnants. This is a typical reed house, different from the brick structures rhino poachers have built for themselves with their new-found wealth. Picture: Chris Collingridge

High cost of water pollution
April 25 2013 at 14:20

Sanitation plan to reduce fouling of uMngeni River in KwaZulu-Natal.

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The area around Kabok is poor, and scarred by wartime remnants. This is a typical reed house, different from the brick structures rhino poachers have built for themselves with their new-found wealth. Picture: Chris Collingridge

Mozambique’s elephants under threat
April 25 2013 at 12:24

Mozambique has been warned to adopt tougher anti-poaching measures or see its elephant population wiped out.

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A worker ploughs a field in front of the Kendal Power Station, a coal-fired power station in Witbank. The team had increasingly been hearing concerned voices from SA about coal mines encroaching on neighbourhoods and protected areas.

Witbank air dirtiest in the world - research
April 25 2013 at 09:46

Some of the highest levels of poisonous gases in the air are found above Witbank and the surrounds, it was reported.

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Pelvic remains of a poached rhino. Picture: Chris Collingridge

This is CSI Africa!
April 24 2013 at 14:24

Jasper gathers shoe prints left in the dust, like other men collect stamps or rare coins.

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A cheetah waking up from a nap in the Phinda Private Game Reserve, near the town of Hluhluwe, in Kwazulu-Natal.

Africa’s cheetahs in race to survive
April 24 2013 at 09:47

It has taken just the last few decades to place the cheetah on the endangered species list, with experts warning it could disappear by 2030.

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This Antarctic fur seal was found on the rocks at Kommetjie. Picture: SPCA

Seal of approval for rare visitor
April 24 2013 at 09:47

An Antarctic fur seal is being given VIP treatment at the SPCA’s “short-term wildlife care facility” in Cape Town.

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