The size of the wattled crane population in KwaZulu-Natal – fewer than 400 birds – makes it incredibly vulnerable to catastrophic events, such as disease. This would put the species at risk of ...

Dr Rion Lerm is a functional ecologist whose thesis focused on the drivers and diversity of bird distribution dynamics in the ...

The outbreak was detected on 15 May 2025 in breeding chickens at a commercial poultry farm located in the municipality of ...

That's the headline of an urgent appeal by the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB), ...

South African poultry producers have the capacity to make up for the loss of Brazilian chicken meat imports owing to an outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu, in that country, says South African ...

South Africans must brace for a potential rise in chicken prices, as the government is expected to ban imports from Brazil ...

Animal welfare officers faced the grisly task of euthanizing more than 350,000 chickens by hand after they were left starving and cannibalizing each other.

Cranes are some of the world’s most majestic birds, with 15 species found globally. Four of these are found in Africa. The ...

Read more: What South African farmers can do to protect endangered grassland birds Grasslands are also foraging areas for the family of wattled cranes as the chick becomes larger. Wattled cranes ...