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Every year Women’s Month rolls around in South Africa and the public is once again confronted by depressing statistics of gender-based violence, sexism in the workplace and everyday discrimination on the street. Many people turn a blind eye, their capacity for compassion having expired, or ro...
Marion Island is a part of South Africa where few of us have ventured. Lying in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean, 2,300km southeast of Cape Town, this uninhabited island is a paradise for seabirds. That is, it was until humans arrived and inadvertently introduced a voracious predator – mice. No...
The killing of Sylon, of the Waterfall troop, illustrates again how the City of Cape Town, SANParks, Table Mountain National Park and CapeNature have failed baboons and management of the baboon-human interface.
In what is seen as a dual victory for transparency and wildlife conservation, the Eastern Cape High Court on Tuesday ordered the provincial MEC for Environmental Affairs to disclose previously sealed records of all permits issued to trap, kill, hunt or translocate endangered leopards in the Eas...
The first study to assess the economic impacts that individual countries have caused on other countries – through their contributions to global warming – shows that five national emitters of greenhouse gasses generated $6-trillion in global economic losses from 1990 to 2014. At a deeper lev...