Being female can be a risky business, especially if you are a Marula tree in Africa receiving the attention of elephants. Research published in African Journal of Ecology shows that the female Marula ...

Marula is a fruit native to the southern parts of Africa. It's the main ingredient for Amarula, a liqueur brand created in ...

Dispelling years of anecdotes in travelogues, the popular press, and scholarly works, biologists from the University of Bristol argue that it is nearly impossible for elephants to become intoxicated ...

It is uncommon to witness anyone climb up the marula tree to pick its fruit. The tree, scientifically dubbed the Sclerocarya birrea after its hard nut clothed with a fleshy pulp, rarely grows to ...

David Malatji and Doris Seamela stand holding the marula fruit whilst Anna kneels down. Two sisters are collecting the fruit from marula trees and are brewing beer as their only source of income.

Mayor Dipuo Thobejane of the rural Maruleng Municipality in Hoedspruit has urged thousands of unemployed youth, women and people living with disabilities to use the area’s abundant marula trees to ...

The Leakey Collection started with handcrafted fringe trim, the kind you might find on drapes. After that came brightly colored necklaces that the women of Kenya’s cattle-herding Masai tribe handcraft ...

Oils have been around for centuries as a natural remedy to many beauty woes, and still are heavily used today in different products and DIY beauty recipes alike. From applying coconut oil as a hair ...

MBABANE, Swaziland - Swaziland is one of the poorest countries in the world. But a new local industry - based on the marula tree - is helping the rural poor earn some income. They say money does not ...

OF the many tree species found in north-central Namibia and elsewhere in southern Africa, the marula tree stands tall and proud as a most respected and celebrated tree which bares a fruit with many ...

Being female can be a risky business, especially if you are a Marula tree in Africa receiving the attention of elephants. The tasty, nutritious and vitamin C-rich Marula fruits are much sought after ...