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GCF grants $40m to Sanbi's Eco-Disaster Risk Reduction project

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Promethium’s Olivia Tuchten named PD Forum co-vice chair

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CapeNature looks at WC's state of conservation in new report

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Protecting penguins: New offshore regulations open for comment

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CSIR to coordinate phase one of WC green hydrogen master plan

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Verve - the fibre of choice for the future

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TotalEnergies SA ad ruled 'misleading' by ARB

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Masifundise Development Trust and Coastal Links hosted the Fisher People Tribunal from 12 to 14 August. Small-scale fishers from across the country gathered in Kalk Bay to share testimonies. GroundUp

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Learning more about elephants for World Elephant Day 12 August 2024

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The Gcuwa River at Butterworth has been contaminated by constant flows of raw sewage for eight years, and has become a dump site. Photo: Manqulo Nyakombi / GroundUp

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Candice Stevens, founder and CEO of the Sustainable Finance Coalition

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Verve – Forest meets Fashion at Africa Textile Talks

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Integrated water management solutions

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10 new speakers announced for Singularity South Africa Summit 2024

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A rhino and her calf, among over 2000 rhinos sold to African Parks, are seen in captivity ahead of the rewilding process planned for the next 10 years, starting later this year, at a farm outside Klerksdorp, South Africa, 12 March 2024. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

Drop in SA's rhino poaching linked to dehorning programmes

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A cleaned African Penguin swimming at Sanccob's Rietvlei centre in 2018. Photos: John Yeld / GroundUp

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John Yeld 15 Jul 2024

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Local community members and supporters of Sustaining the Wild Coast and Greenpeace celebrated a court victory outside the Eastern Cape High Court in Makhanda in September 2022. Archive photo: Lucas Nowicki / GroundUp

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Caps collected from used plastic bottles are stored in a bucket at the Waste museum in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, 23 February 2022. Reuters/Temilade Adelaja/File Photo

Nigeria to ban single-use plastics next year

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2024 OceanLove Innovation Award winners

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Nick Booth, Corobrik CEO

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Public comment sought on rhino management plan

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A girl carries a jerrycan filled with water at a Tolou Keur garden in the Walalde department of Podor, in the Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel area, Senegal, 11 July 2021. Reuters/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo

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Farm workers and their children are exposed to pesticides that have been banned in Europe. These pesticides remain in the environment, and studies have found them all year round in three river catchments in the Western Cape. Archive photo: Steve Kretzmann / GroundUp

Pesticides are polluting Western Cape rivers all year round

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