A NEW WORLD Long sea journeys have taken the hedgehog right to the other side of the world, to New Zealand. From the 1870's onwards, col...

"Black Eagle" Watercolour on Bockingford 300gsm watercolour paper - Maree© FOUR years ago the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gar...

JUNE 2009 Black Eagles are born white Fortunately the Cain and Abel struggle did not ensue because only one of the two eggs hatched. So ther...

"Hedgie, the Hedgehog" - watercolour in Moleskine large sketchbook - Maree Hedgie the African Hedgehog (Atelerix frontalis)...

"Danny" - my Sulphur Crested Cockatoo, Danny - pencil sketch with watercolour - Maree© The Sulphur Crested Cockatoo is native to A...

"Dandelion" pencil sketch and watercolour - Maree© We have clumps of the weed Dandelion growing all over our smallholding ...

Galagos, also known as bushbabies , bush babies or Nagapies (meaning "little night monkeys" in Afrikaans), are small, nocturnal p...

Porcupines on the red Kalahari dunes, Kgalagadi, South Africa ©South African Tourism The porcupine is the prickliest of rodents, though its ...

MAY 2009 - UP-DATE on the ‘Black Eagles of Roodekrans.’ Survival of the fittest Last month, (April 2009), the Verreaux’s (Black) Eagles laid...

The Southern African Hedgehog is a small, nocturnal animal covered in short, prickly spines. Their faces, limbs and tails are covered with d...