By Gloria Dickie The lions that roamed the plains of northern Botswana were dying. One by one, the big cats were succumbing to poisoned bait planted by exasperated villagers. The lions had been ...

Normally having eyes glued to your ass would be a workplace no-no, but this new technique is a real life-saver down at the farm (All images courtesy of UNSW Sydney; photo by Ben Yexley) A joint study ...

This one weird trick can save cattle from lions biting their throats and killing them. From 2015 to 2018, scientists from the University of New South Wales in Australia, working with the Botswana ...

More than 200 cattle from Hereford were relocated to the Bray Community Farm as a way of containing the spread of Foot and Mouth Disease following the detection of the disease in neighbouring Bray in ...

A conservation biologist at Australia’s University of New South Wales said in July that his team was headed to Botswana to paint eyeballs on cows’ rear ends. It’s a solution to the problem of farmers ...

GABORONE, BOTSWANA — Botswana has put restrictions on the movement of cloven-hoofed animals in the northeast of the country after an incursion of buffalo from Zimbabwe put cattle at risk of ...

It sounds like a strategy to protect the poor cattle, but the idea is actually to protect endangered African lions from human retaliation Photo: Courtesy Following rampant cases of human-wildlife ...

In Botswana, Africa, researchers have painted eyes on the rumps of cattle to prevent lions and other predators from attacking. Early trials were effective. According to a paper the researchers ...

In 1975, a more innocent time, the European Union signed the beef and veal protocol, which granted what became of its former African colonies access to the EU beef market. That was before the ...

A conservation biologist has come up with a novel method for protecting cattle from being hunted by African lions: paint eyes on their butts. The lions will think their intended prey has seen them and ...