savanna

Every hunting season, wildlife authorities here set aside a specific number of the animals for hunting, drawing hundreds of wealthy hunters to this expanse of yellow savanna, rocky hillsides and cliffs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

Brazil's government says deforestation rates in the country's Amazon and savanna regions have fallen to record lows ahead of a presidential election run-off where the rainforest's future is a key issue.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Deforestation also decreased in the Cerrado -- a vast, biodiverse savanna south of the Amazon.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Nonprofits and conservation groups estimate that there are today around 415,000 elephants in Africa, and the African savanna elephant is listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

I’m a turquoise-backed African sunbird, soaring over the desert savanna.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

A Gaboon viper — a highly venomous snake native to the rainforests and savannas of sub-Saharan Africa — was on the loose in a Santa Ana neighborhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Capybaras aren’t native to Mexico; they are South American, occupying savannas and vegetated areas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

Preserving savannas and grasslands is important for many reasons, Nerlekar said.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2026

The scale of the increase varied across the four different biomes surveyed, with the sharpest rise in tropical savannas.

From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026

Living on this artificial inland archipelago, native peoples ate a diet heavy in fish, which migrate and spawn in the flooded savannas.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann