San Antonio Zoo hatches two rare Congo peafowl

The global population of the Congo peafowl has grown by two, thanks to the San Antonio Zoo's breeding program. The tiny birds ...

Africa’s only penguin species is starving: Is there still hope?

Overfishing and ecosystem disruption are leaving African penguins without enough food to survive. Their suffering signals a broader collapse in the ocean food web, but new policies and conservation ...
Human Rights Watch

End to Abuses Still Distant in DR Congo

The Washington Accords, signed in December 2025 between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda under US mediation, promised an end to the devastating armed conflict in eastern Congo through troop ...

Animal cruelty and human torture: The depraved history of cinema’s most twisted genre

A soldier in Zanzibar raises his rifle over his head before smashing it down on to the car windscreen. Shards of glass splatter film-maker Gualtiero Jacopetti’s face, slicing a vein behind his ear. As ...
The Malta Independent

‘I got the African fever’: How a Maltese conservationist found her calling in African jungles

At the edge of the Congo River in Africa, 24-year-old Maltese researcher and conservationist Francesca Grillo is living the ...