In her memoir, The Flame Trees of Thika, Elspeth Huxley describes the ride on an ox-cart with her mother from the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi to the Blue Post Hotel in Thika.
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA — A layer of frost clings to the grass on the morning Tony DeNicola sets out to check his trap. It’s ...
Birds flying inspire awe — but how much do you know about flight? Learn which bird flies highest, which flying bird is ...
Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...
The winter had passed. Spring was blooming. Then one soldier turned on another at Fort Buford before eventually killing ...
Scientists warn that losing Africa’s large animals is draining ecosystem energy and reshaping the continent’s biodiversity.
Among bison, matriarchs lead. The same has been true for generations of many Indigenous Nations, including the Lakota, whose ...
They feed almost exclusively on native apple snails, although a larger, invasive African snail has started to dominate some .
Even where national parks are well run, their presence does little to help preserve semi-protected areas such as ...
Wild burros' appetite for native desert trees are endangering the health of Sonoran ... The species evolved in the deserts of ...
The Banhine National Park in Mozambique was a wildlife haven 50 years ago. Then, it was nearly stripped bare by decades of civil war and unchecked poaching. But a project is underway to ...