The board of the South African National Biodiversity Institute (Sanbi) has appointed Shonisani Munzhedzi as CEO of the organisation...
Cathy Dreyer has been appointed the first-ever female head ranger at the Kruger National Park (KNP). She starts her new position on 1 May 2021...
The Coca-Cola Foundation's Replenish Africa Initiative (Rain) funds five major projects in South Africa - each received $1.25m in grants in 2019...
The City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality's water woes is not a thing of the past, despite the good rainfall this winter....
The government has approved in principle the huge Boulders wind farm project on the West Coast peninsula near Paternoster, St Helena Bay and Vredenburg...
John Yeld 22 Jan 2020
South African biologists and environmentalists, in three recent papers, have listed pertinent research priorities for the next decade...
New infographic shows how forestry plays a role in sustaining the planet, its people and their prosperity...
Dr Ronald Heath 4 Sep 2019
Instigated in 2012, it has taken seven years for the uMngeni Valley to be proclaimed a nature reserve. The process was officially gazetted on 16 May 2019...
South Africa is no longer a spectator country in the business of the ocean and fisheries economy, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Senzeni Zokwana said on Tuesday, 9 April 2019.
Tourism is an organic industry, growing and changing as the needs and wants of travellers shift, and service providers adapt their offerings to meet these requirements...
Kerry Hayes 8 Jan 2019
While millions of rands have been disbursed to fight illegal wildlife trade, rhino poaching continues...
Kangnas Wind Farm has partnered with the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, providing financial support for a PhD study on the Red Lark...
Wildlife crimes were once considered a “green” matter. But this has changed...
Annette Hübschle 21 Sep 2017
The 2017 Kudu Awards is currently open for entries until 8 October...
Climate change is not something that will just go away...
Orly Razgour 7 Aug 2017
The region in which iSimangaliso Wetland Park is located was experiencing a declining tourism economy when it was listed and proclaimed as South Africa's first world heritage site in 2000...
The Kruger National Park (KNP) is currently hosting scientists and researchers from around the world for the 15th Annual Savanna Science Network Meeting at the Skukuza's Nombolo Mdluli Conference Centre...
US wildlife authorities released on Monday, 9 December, a broad plan to try to save Arctic polar bears from going extinct, as global warming melts away their icy habitat at an increasing pace...
A study by UCT researchers has confirmed a decline in the iconic conifer, the Clanwilliam cedar, which gives the name to the Cederberg Wilderness Area...
Deserving conservationists were recognised by South African National Parks at the 12th SANParks Kudu Awards ceremony...
CapeNature's Stewardship programme and Conservation Detection Dog project were awarded for its biodiversity stewardship and species conservation efforts...
"The Kudu Awards is an event whereby SANParks honours and celebrates people who eat, sleep and breathe conservation."
Kwantu Private Game Reserve's volunteer programme is drawing visitors from across the globe to participate in real life safari training. Proving popular with youth travellers...
South African National Parks (SANParks) and the Department of Environmental Affairs have announced the findings of a two-year pilot programme that has demonstrated conservation as a growing and value-adding sector within rural development...
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Life on our over-populated planet is undergoing such stress, that we risk increasing disconnection from the natural world on which our survival ultimately depends...
Roger Metcalfe 5 Oct 2015
The 2015 Garden Route National Park (GRNP) awards ceremony was recently held at the Simola Hotel near Knysna...
Cabinet approved the appointment of Fundisile Mketeni as the CEO of South African National Parks (SANParks) on a five-year contract at its meeting on 22 October 2014.
The Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa (WESSA) has announced that Blue Flag status has been awarded to a record 82 sites in South Africa. The 2014/2015 South African Blue Flag season opens officially on 1 November.
Clansthal Conservancy has opened its own office in the Crocworld Conservation Centre near Scottburgh in southern KwaZulu-Natal.
A young elephant and possibly a rhino were recently injured by a fire in the Kruger National Park (KNP). However, South African National Parks (SANParks) has refuted claims that the fire was part of controlled fires that are currently being administered in the park.
The recent floods in the Kruger National Park, thick vegetation, two weeks of a full moon, and aggressive incursions from Mozambique are some of the factors that have contributed not only an increase in poaching in the country's flagship national park, but also in a rise in the number of arrests of those intent on killing these animals for their horns.
It's safe to say that SA's water infrastructure is in the same position that the energy sector was in a decade ago. Without huge investment to rehabilitate and replace ageing infrastructure, supply and quality are under threat.
Pumba Private Game Reserve has announced the death of Hapoor Junior (aged 58), the Eastern Cape's most famous elephant bull. He was sired by legendary Hapoor, the dominating bull who reigned over all in the Addo Elephant National Park from 1944 to 1958.
The Biodiversity & Wine Initiative (BWI), in recognition of its contribution to conserving the biodiversity of the Cape floral kingdom for future generations, has awarded Elgin Orchards, owned by Elgin Vintners partner Max Hahn, BWI champion status.
On 16 September 2009 the Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency launched a partnership agreement with the National Tourism Institute of Mozambique (INATUR) and the Swaziland Tourism Authority (STA).
Distell, South Africa's biggest wine and spirits producer, has launched its flagship cream liqueur Amarula in India, one of the world's fastest-growing economies. The company, which already markets its top-selling Nederburg and Two Oceans wines on the subcontinent, introduced Amarula in the states of Maharashtra and neighbouring Karnataka, two of India's most affluent and populous regions, during March 2009.
Janine Erasmus 3 Apr 2009
Amarula lent its support to a team of specialists who monitor and assess the impact of elephants on the environment with a collaring exercise that took place at the end of October 2008.