Winston Aldworth finds respect for an underdog in the brutal Ngorongoro Crater,

Winston Aldworth takes to a bicycle for a new view of Tanzania.

A wildlife photographer has captured the dramatic moment a pride of lions bolted up a tree after they were spooked by a herd of elephants.

The mountains of East Africa are being dissolved by climate change, Jason Patinkin reports.

Derek Cheng wonders which magnificent creature it would be best to be.

It was from neighbours that Scola Joseph first heard of two strange men in the village asking after her children. She knew immediately the moment she dreaded had come.

Richard Madden finds it impossible not to be moved by the sight of a pride of lions or a leopard and her cubs in Tanzania.

If you're into Africa, a luxury flying safari is the way to see - and taste - the continent at its best, writes Sandy Kilgour.

Dame Jane Goodall, the celebrated ethologist considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, will give a series of public talks in New Zealand next month.

Mike Unwin and his family swap the European winter for a wildlife-heavy African Yuletide.

When Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete launched Operation Tokomeza ("terminate" in Swahili), with its shoot-to-kill orders to deal with elephant poachers, he wasn't mincing his words.

Two British victims of an acid attack in Zanzibar may have been targeted following two previous run-ins with locals, it has emerged.

For the past couple of months, I've been putting myself through torture at the gym; cashing in favours to spend time in the Warriors' hyperbaric chamber; and waking in the dead of night, rigid with fear at the prospect of what lay ahead.

The Tazara Railway was built in the 1970s to provide landlocked Zambia with port access at Dar es Salam in Tanzania. However since the fanfare surrounding the opening of the 1860km-long track, the railway's financial situation has deteriorated.

Jill Worrall is captivated by the cycle of life on display within Serengeti National Park.

Serengeti National Park is best known for its annual migration of millions of wildebeest but once the migratory animals have left it's also a superb place to see predators such as lions, cheetah and leopards.

Clare Kendall is mesmerised by the unusual beauty of flamingos and the many other jaw-dropping sights of Tanzania.

Negotiations are continuing for the release of the sister of an Auckland man and her partner who were taken hostage by Somali pirates, with a friend of the couple hopeful a resolution will be reached soon.

Will Derek Cheng give up his modern luxuries for a more simple life with a Masai maiden? Sadly, love is not in the air this time.

Inspired by a love of Dr Dolittle and Tarzan to go to Tanzania and study chimpanzees, Jane Goodall has now clocked up 50 years of groundbreaking research into their behaviour. Robin McKie charts her extraordinary story.

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