A world-renowned conservationist is visiting metro Detroit and other U.S. cities for a one-month tour to bring to light efforts to save the world’s fastest land animal.

Scientists have identified a giant salamanderlike predator with sharp fangs that likely ruled waters 280 million years ago.

U.S. first lady Jill Biden has told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that she feels a kinship with Africa.

First lady Jill Biden is headed to Namibia and Kenya as part of a United States push to step up engagement with Africa.

India has welcomed 12 cheetahs from South Africa that will join eight others it received from Namibia last year as part of an ambitious drive to reintroduce the big cats in the country after 70 years.

Omicron cases have been confirmed in at least nine African countries, with some officials reporting that initial cases appear to be mild.

A group of traditional chiefs in Namibia say they have accepted an offer of compensation by Germany and a recognition that the colonial-era massacre of tens of thousands of their people in the early 20th century was genocide.

This 2018 photo provided by the Leibniz-IZW Cheetah Research Project shows cheetahs gathering at a tree in central Namibia. New research published on Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, on how cheetahs use the landscape has allowed some ranchers to reduce the number of calves killed annually by 86%, largely by avoiding popular cheetah hangouts. (Leibniz-IZW Cheetah Research Project via AP)WASHINGTON – On the dusty savannahs of Namibia, one of the last strongholds of cheetah populations on Earth, conflicts between cattle ranchers and big cats threaten the survival of the embattled carnivores. But new research on how cheetahs use the landscape has allowed some ranchers to reduce the number of calves killed annually by 86%, largely by avoiding popular cheetah hangouts. In 2008, researchers convinced the first rancher to move herds to avoid cheetah hubs during calving season.