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

Daily Maverick travelled with the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) to see how changing land management practices is supporting habitat restoration in areas impacted by threats such as mining, unsustainable farming, renewable energy projects and climate change through its Drylands Conservation Programme.
By Kristin Engel
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Forecast U-turn: Southwest SA now seen having a very wet midwinter

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

By Jenni Trethowan
Killing entire troops of Cape baboons is once again a very real threat despite 25 years of hard effort
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By DPD South Africa
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Collective environmental governance is our best hope to avert planetary ecological disaster

By Martin de Wit
Collective environmental governance is our best hope to avert planetary ecological disaster
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Parliament backs NSPCA demand to end captive lion breeding in SA

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

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

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

A new blockchain-based carbon credit registry could have ‘profound’ implications, but the costs are prohibitive and the risks of greenwashing remain.
By Kudzanai Musengi
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Conservation world mourns loss of visionary leader Sharon Haussmann

By Don Pinnock
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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
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Makhanda High Court orders immediate halt to illegal Wild Coast building

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

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

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

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

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

By Don Pinnock

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