After a fire tore through a sugarcane field in South Africa last fall, Dr. Peet Venter received an urgent phone call.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Fifty years ago, Banhine National Park in Mozambique was a wildlife haven, teeming with herds of giraffe, buffalo and antelope. Then, it was stripped nearly bare by ...

Some years back, a Great Blue Heron dropped out of the sky and into our family’s garden. The bird did not move and it looked tired. When we cautiously entered the garden, it did not try to step away, ...