About 200 miles from Johannesburg, the Drakensberg region offers a breathtaking landscape of stark ridges and green valleys.

It’s 6am in the morning. I’m crammed into the back of a Toyota, rattling up a truly terrible unsealed road in blanket mist, about to begin one of the greatest walks of my life. The next few hours will ...

Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa has received funding from the National Research Foundation for a grant to study the institutional landscape for the conservation of critically endangered plans. She is also an ...