A pest to ranchers, a prize to hunters, and a temperamental tank to anything that bothers it, African buffalo roam by the thousands in sub-Saharan Africa. Cape buffalo, one of four distinct subspecies ...

Sheltering an incredible diversity of flora and fauna, including western lowland gorillas and forest elephants, is a vast, little-visited tropical rainforest known as the ‘lungs of Africa’.

An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our ...

Whether you’re tackling the deserts of Namibia or the jungles of Uganda, the safari experience is heightened when you do it ...

He honed his climate-responsive designs in some of the planet’s fastest warming regions. Now, the Burkina Faso–raised Kéré is scaling up his trailblazing approach with ambitious projects across the ...

But in central Africa, as I learned firsthand, something more sinister is driving the killing: Militias and terrorist groups funded in part by ivory are poaching elephants, often outside their home ...

National Geographic's annual Pictures of the Year collection showcases stunning images of wildlife from around the world. Out of the hundreds of thousands of images taken by its photographers in 2025, ...

Through De Beers’s Okavango Eternal partnership with National Geographic, natural diamonds have been supporting foundational scientific work to protect these source waters, and as of 2026, an area of ...