All the inhabited continents except Africa have experienced bird extinctions; however the 2012 update of the IUCN Red List shows a startling, but not altogether unexpected, trend in that more and more of our bird species are facing extinction. An African Penguins strolls along Boulders Beach, Simonstown, South Africa. MORE >>

I’m sure you’ve all heard of Africa’s famous Big Five , but do you know there is also an equally fascinating Little Five ? Africa is famous for its large, charismatic mammals, and the Big Five epitomize the most sought-after of these fantastic beasts. They are large, noisy birds of drier areas of East and southern Africa. MORE >>

In Africa. go on to say that they believe the birds colonized South America from Africa and suggest that the most plausible explanation for this is that the birds traveled west across the Atlantic on “rafts” — huge floating tangles of debris often invoked to explain trans-Atlantic mammal dispersal events. MORE >>

With forty days left till the latest climate conference held in Durban, South Africa, faith leaders are preparing to fight for the environment. Religion climate action climate change solutions Copenhagen Durban faith Muslims South AfricaThe petition will be handed to the world leaders by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. MORE >>

This is the dawning of a new era in relations between Israel and African states,” according to Lynn Schler, director of the Africa Centre at Ben-Gurion University. Israeli engagement with Africa has dramatically increased over the past year, especially in the sectors of agriculture, water technologies and natural resource management. MORE >>