By Victor Nsereko Wantate Many African conservation decisions such as funding, policy, species prioritization and nursery ...

Palm trees grace the landscape across Africa, thriving in environments as diverse as deserts and rainforests. Central Africa holds the richest variety, home to 52 species, while west Africa has 38 and ...

In the drylands of Benin, west Africa, livestock farming is under growing pressure. These vast, hot landscapes cover roughly 70% of the country’s land area. Their sparse pastures and scattered trees ...

CROOKS CORNER, South Africa (AP) — Africa's ancient baobab, with its distinctive swollen trunk and known as the "tree of life," is under a new and mysterious threat, with some of the largest and ...

The African baobab trees are dying, or perhaps dead already, a new research reveals. The trees, which are the oldest and biggest angiosperm trees in the world, are aged between 1,100 and 2,500 years.

Baobabs reach extraordinarily old ages. Some have been found to be thousands of years old. During these life spans, elder baobabs have survived erratic climate conditions. As an ecologist who has ...

The baobab tree, sometimes called the “Tree of Life,” has an unforgettable appearance. Found in savanna regions of Africa, Madagascar and Australia, the trees form a very thick and wide trunk and ...

Baobabs, sometimes known as “upside down trees”, have a distinct appearance that is unmistakable, even from afar. Native to Africa, these iconic trees live in hot, dry savannahs and scrublands ...

In the 1970s and 1980s, pine trees growing in various forestry plantations in South Africa’s Western Cape province began to die in patches. These trees succumbed to a mysterious root disease and the ...

Although it might seem strange, the cape area of South Africa shares our Bay Area Mediterranean climate, the difference being a matter of north or south latitude. Because of this common climate, many ...

Driving beyond South Africa’s Limpopo province, into the village of Chivadini, people and grassland are scarce. But the oldest living organisms in Africa – baobab trees – are abundant. These spectral ...