For this week's Photographer of the Week, we're introducing you to Lauren Dent, a wildlife photographer and field guide who has spent the past nine years living and working in the South African bush. Lauren grew up in Johannesburg but today calls the Lowveld home. She lives on Pidwa Wilderness Reserve, where she works as a volunteer coordinator and guide for Askari Wilderness Conservation Programme. Her journey into wildlife photography is closely connected to the career she chose and a...

For this week's Photographer of the Week, we're introducing you to Yehuda Hirschowitz, a wildlife photographer and digital marketing student based in Johannesburg, South Africa. With a bird list of 483 species, around 300 of which he has photographed, Yehuda has developed a passion for capturing birds in a way that goes beyond simple identification. His photographs are about preserving memories, telling stories, and showcasing birds within the landscapes they call home. While photography is a...

Levaillant's Cuckoo and Levaillant's Cisticola are familiar birds to most South African birders. Experienced birders will almost certainly have both species on their life lists and have probably enjoyed multiple sightings of each. Yet while we know these birds well, many of us know very little about the remarkable man after whom they were named. It is this story that Ian Glenn explores in the revised second edition of The First Safari: Searching for François Levaillant. Before I started...