The savanna (sometimes mistakenly spelled as "Savannah," which is in the state of Georgia) describes an African region with grasslands and minimal tree densities. This wide-open landscape becomes a ...

In East Africa, buffalo are known to break fences ... rinderpest—a virus that’s nearly always fatal to hoofed animals—to Africa, and it caused buffalo numbers to crash across the continent.

Relocating animals to create new populations could ... populations have nearly doubled in recent decades. But in East Africa, the reticulated and Masai species of giraffe face a much grimmer ...