White-winged Flufftail is one of the rarest, shyest and least-known of all waterbirds. However, new research by BirdLife South Africa is telling us more about it – and the best way to help it survive.

In advocating for the protection of African penguin from extinction, BirdLife South Africa and the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB), will head to the Gauteng ...

The African Penguin has been officially uplisted from Endangered to Critically Endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, highlighting the species’ severe risk ...

The endearing African penguins, which attract thousands of tourists to their colony in Boulders, Simon’s Town, as they waddle, plunge and bray like jackasses, are in deep trouble. In the last 100 ...

Each year in May, World Migratory Bird Day draws attention to the billions of birds that migrate long distances with the ...

The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) and BirdLife International has co-organised a sub-regional vulture workshop in Abuja. The event, facilitated by the International Union of Conservation of ...

South Africa’s beleaguered blue swallow has been reclassified from vulnerable to endangered in the latest global update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The intra-African migrant is a ...

In a desperate bid to save the endangered African penguin from extinction, local conservation bodies have initiated legal action against Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Minister Barbara Creecy.

The European roller is a small, striking migratory bird that breeds in open woodlands — or farms and orchards — across Europe ...