Water security ever more important this World Rivers Day
The looming impact of the El Niño weather phenomenon is predicted to significantly impact rainfall patterns in the current summer of 2023/24 – presenting substantial risk to water security in already water stressed parts of the country.
The Ripple Effect of Youth Entrepreneurship: The Story of a Wattle-Based Charcoal Business
Depending on where you live in South Africa, you may not know of the overgrowth of alien wattle trees in parts of the country.
Removing alien plants can save water: we measured how much
Humans’ relationship with nature is broken. We’re transforming the Earth so dramatically that almost one million plant and animals species face extinction.
Farmers, bankers, conservationists (part 1)
I was part of a press contingent ushered to various projects in KwaZulu-Natal last week – 12th and 13th November. Our hosts were a combined team from Nedbank and World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa (WWF SA)
Invasive alien species (IAS)
Introduction See https://invasives.org.za. Invasive alien species (IAS) are species that have been introduced into an area and are able to out-compete and displace indigenous or useful alien species. They may be plants, animals or microbes, including diseases, and are widely regarded as among the biggest threats to the productive use of land and water, the ecological […]