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South Africa’s Drylands are being transformed through community-led conservation
South Africa

South Africa’s Drylands are being transformed through community-led conservation

In the arid expanses of South Africa’s Drylands, landowners, conservationists and policymakers collaborate to restore ecologically fragile farmlands while maintaining agricultural livelihoods.

By Kristin Engel
Our Burning Planet

How the world’s top trophy hunters are killing off leopards

By Don Pinnock
How the world’s top trophy hunters are killing off leopards
South Africa

Call to halt proposed removal of Cape Peninsula baboons a rallying cry for a more compassionate approach

By Adam Cruise
Call to halt proposed removal of Cape Peninsula baboons a rallying cry for a more compassionate approach
Our Burning Planet

Poachers’ partners — when the Kruger National Park’s rangers turn rogue

By Tulani Ngwenya
Poachers’ partners — when the Kruger National Park’s rangers turn rogue
Our Burning Planet

Bitterly cold conditions with rain and snow forecast for much of SA

By Victoria O’Regan
Bitterly cold conditions with rain and snow forecast for much of SA
Coal mining fear sparks unexpected conservation boom in Mpumalanga
Our Burning Planet

Coal mining fear sparks unexpected conservation boom in Mpumalanga

By Fred Kockott
Comrades Marathon runners warned to prepare for extreme winter weather during run this weekend
Our Burning Planet

Comrades Marathon runners warned to prepare for extreme winter weather during run this weekend

By Julia Evans
Listen: A war on migration, funded by the EU (Libya, Part 1)
Our Burning Planet

Listen: A war on migration, funded by the EU (Libya, Part 1)

By The Outlaw Ocean Project
NMU-led research uncovers effective rhino protection measures amid poaching crisis in Kruger
Our Burning Planet

NMU-led research uncovers effective rhino protection measures amid poaching crisis in Kruger

By Angela Daniels
Ending plastic pollution is a human and planetary health imperative
World

Ending plastic pollution is a human and planetary health imperative

By Inger Andersen
Polluted SA air killed 42,000 in 2023, study finds — yet loopholes persist
South Africa

Polluted SA air killed 42,000 in 2023, study finds — yet loopholes persist

By Julia Evans
Forecast U-turn: Southwest SA now seen having a very wet midwinter
Business Maverick

Forecast U-turn: Southwest SA now seen having a very wet midwinter

By Ed Stoddard
Killing entire troops of Cape baboons is once again a very real threat despite 25 years of hard effort
Our Burning Planet

Killing entire troops of Cape baboons is once again a very real threat despite 25 years of hard effort

By Jenni Trethowan
Collective environmental governance is our best hope to avert planetary ecological disaster
World

Collective environmental governance is our best hope to avert planetary ecological disaster

By Martin de Wit
Parliament backs NSPCA demand to end captive lion breeding in SA
South Africa

Parliament backs NSPCA demand to end captive lion breeding in SA

By Don Pinnock
Just Share accuses Standard Bank of incomplete reporting on oil and gas exposure
Business Maverick

Just Share accuses Standard Bank of incomplete reporting on oil and gas exposure

By Kara Le Roux
New documentary shines a light on the environmental damage caused by Elon Musk’s tech ambitions
Sci-Tech

New documentary shines a light on the environmental damage caused by Elon Musk’s tech ambitions

By Rebecca Davis
Forget cats, forget traps — bring in the puff adders to revolutionise pest control
South Africa

Forget cats, forget traps — bring in the puff adders to revolutionise pest control

By Don Pinnock
Novel carbon credits initiative gives Zimbabwe an edge, but concerns remain over cost barriers
Africa

Novel carbon credits initiative gives Zimbabwe an edge, but concerns remain over cost barriers

By Kudzanai Musengi
Conservation world mourns loss of visionary leader Sharon Haussmann
South Africa

Conservation world mourns loss of visionary leader Sharon Haussmann

By Don Pinnock
How a city came together to rewrite its future in the age of climate change
South Africa

How a city came together to rewrite its future in the age of climate change

By Julia Evans

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Compassion collides with cruelty — the suffering of animals and the toll on the woman who defends them

By Don Pinnock
Compassion collides with cruelty — the suffering of animals and the toll on the woman who defends them
Our Burning Planet

Makhanda High Court orders immediate halt to illegal Wild Coast building

By Tony Carnie
Makhanda High Court orders immediate halt to illegal Wild Coast building
Africa

From gourds to satellites: A Maasai-inspired model for reweaving Kenya’s rangelands

By Yves Vanderhaeghen
From gourds to satellites: A Maasai-inspired model for reweaving Kenya’s rangelands
Our Burning Planet

Embracing the in-between — why we need to ditch the people-or-wildlife conservation binary

By Yves Vanderhaeghen
Embracing the in-between — why we need to ditch the people-or-wildlife conservation binary
World

Getting hot, hotter… Five takeaways from the WMO’s new five-year climate forecast

By Julia Evans
Getting hot, hotter… Five takeaways from the WMO’s new five-year climate forecast
South Africa

SCA moved environmental rights forward, but left children’s rights behind

By Liesl Muller
SCA moved environmental rights forward, but left children’s rights behind
Minister to remove wrecks from small SA harbours after outcry by fishers
South Africa

Minister to remove wrecks from small SA harbours after outcry by fishers

By Don Pinnock
Tree replanting starts in Cape Town’s Newlands after devastating beetle infestation
Our Burning Planet

Tree replanting starts in Cape Town’s Newlands after devastating beetle infestation

By Kristin Engel
When the elders fall silent — how the loss of elephant matriarchs fractures a society
World

When the elders fall silent — how the loss of elephant matriarchs fractures a society

By Don Pinnock
Environmental concerns rise as Cape Town secures extended deadlines for Milnerton Lagoon upgrades
South Africa

Environmental concerns rise as Cape Town secures extended deadlines for Milnerton Lagoon upgrades

By Kristin Engel
‘No Typical Day’: On the job with conservation's unsung hero at Addo Elephant National Park
South Africa

‘No Typical Day’: On the job with conservation's unsung hero at Addo Elephant National Park

By Julia Evans
‘It’s a calling… someone has to do it’ — NSPCA inspector on why she endures the danger and the heartbreak
South Africa

‘It’s a calling… someone has to do it’ — NSPCA inspector on why she endures the danger and the heartbreak

By Don Pinnock

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Wrong penguin, right wing: The Full Monty director casts accidental bird in botched pic of Argentine coup
World

Wrong penguin, right wing: The Full Monty director casts accidental bird in botched pic of Argentine coup

By Tiara Walters
Alarm over battery cage cruelty met with stonewalling while 95% of SA’s laying hens suffer
Our Burning Planet

Alarm over battery cage cruelty met with stonewalling while 95% of SA’s laying hens suffer

By Francesca de Gasparis and Amy P Wilson
Inside Addo’s elephant translocation and the challenge of fragmented wild spaces
South Africa

Inside Addo’s elephant translocation and the challenge of fragmented wild spaces

By Julia Evans
Parliament pushes for urgent action on Mawana’s roaming elephant herd
South Africa

Parliament pushes for urgent action on Mawana’s roaming elephant herd

By Don Pinnock
Municipal waste failures undermine South Africans’ right to a healthy environment, committee told
South Africa

Municipal waste failures undermine South Africans’ right to a healthy environment, committee told

By Kristin Engel
Hi-tech protection for birds at risk from SA’s wind turbine farms
South Africa

Hi-tech protection for birds at risk from SA’s wind turbine farms

By Kristin Engel

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