Ethiopian lions restore their pride. A pride of lions has emerged victorious from a ferocious two-week battle with a pack of hyaenas in the Ethiopian desert. Alleged poachers nabbed with tusk worth R80 000. The Kruger National Park welcomed the arrest of four men allegedly caught in possession of an elephant tusk worth R80 000. Robert Redford, Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer live on a plot near Brits in the North West Province.
Dukuduku dissidents drive officials out of forest.
Militant dissidents living in the Dukuduku state forest near St Lucia have driven government officials out of the forest and are threatening to physically attack anyone who tries to resettle them on new land. Ownership of Mooi Marietjie is settled. It has taken three years, but the battle among three farmers over the ownership of a rare white rhino affectionately known as Mooi Marietjie is finally over. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park a first for southern Africa. The Peace Parks Foundation congratulates Botswana's Department of Wildlife and National Parks and South African National Parks on the creation of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, the first formally recognised transfrontier conservation area in southern Africa.