Fit for the Wild

The expansive Southern African bushveld supports an unusual diversity of fauna and flora. Immense resources underpin the march of life and living should be easy. But all is not wha...

The only true desert in southern Africa is the most hostile and unforgiving of them all. No other African wildlife exhibits as much resourcefulness and flexibility as the desert el...

When the last summer rains have fallen in the Serengeti, 1.3 million blue wildebeest set out from the exhausted southern grasslands, pursuing fresh pastures and tropical rainfall i...

Where the ocean meets the African continent, the Cape fur seal leads a double life, depending on both land and sea to feed, breed and survive. As spring arrives, the pregnant femal...

The barren Kalahari landscape offers little protection to its animal inhabitants. Masters of survival, they must overcome drought, dust, wind and heat to survive. Clans of resource...

The creatures of the Okavango occupy a mosaic of land and water. Throngs of birds and animals arrive with the seasonal floods, only to recede along with the waters. Permanent resid...

Three great oceans meet at the southern tip of Africa and three distinct marine ecosystems extend their mingled currents thousands of miles around the continent, creating one of th...

Burrowed beneath the African bushveld, animals like the hyena, aardvark, and pangolin shelter in these retreats to sleep and breed. As the winter dry season sets in, wild dogs - th...

The towering 60ft canopy of Africa's rain-forests creates a hot, humid habitat where time seems to stand still and seasons never change. Where humans rarely venture, our closest an...

A reef is an incredible living organism. To survive and flourish, water conditions have to be perfect, only then can tiny coral polyps form thriving colonies. Algae attach themselv...

Fluctuation between fresh and salt-water, alternating immersion and exposure, temperature extremes, and powerful currents make for extremely demanding conditions in southern Africa...

For long periods, even years on end, the salt pans of Africa are barren and lifeless. When the rains finally come, water sweeps over the salt-encrusted clay, creating vast inland s...

The Drakensberg is a mighty chain of peaks spanning South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho. Black eagles and cape griffon vultures rule the air, nesting on perilous cliff faces to avo...