DUBAI POSITIVES COP28 outcome better for Africa compared with previous meetings – Creecy 5 min 1 By Ethan van Diemen
MOTHER CITY CRIME Lobby group calls for beefed-up Table Mountain security as muggings continue 4 min 4 By Samane Jnr Marks
CANNED HUNTING ‘I’m a lion farmer. No one takes my lions’: Breeders threaten court action over industry closure 12 min 20 By Tiara Walters
OUR CHEMICAL ROMANCE ‘Dinosaur’ pesticide law clings to life as SA dithers on poisons reform 10 min 5 By Tony Carnie
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION South Africa cited in global report that seeks to end captive tiger breeding 3 min 6 By Don Pinnock
WESTERN CAPE WILDFIRE Simon’s Town smoke envelops city — firefighters near Scarborough, Glencairn, Fish Hoek and Simon’s Town continue to fight flames 5 min 12 By Victoria O’Regan
COASTAL SHOCK ‘The timing felt strategic’ – activists scramble to submit appeal after government approves seismic survey in Algoa Basin 8 min 6 By Julia Evans and Kristin Engel
ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS Karpowership pursues potential gap to refloat Richards Bay project — regardless of civil society appeals 5 min 12 By Marianne Merten
CONSERVATION TRIAGE Creecy launches R2.6-billion invasive species programme — experts say more funding needed in critical areas 7 min 11 By Julia Evans
FINANCIAL DRIVERS New tax incentive might be just what’s needed to save SA’s threatened species 6 min 6 By Julia Evans
MINISTERIAL GIFTS Unwrapping the financial interests of ministers: A R50,000 portrait of Gwede Mantashe and a stack of books for Barbara Creecy 4 min 7 By Kristin Engel
WILDLIFE PROTECTIONS Regulations tabled to block new lion breeders and protect wide range of wild creatures 4 min 4 By Don Pinnock
WILDLIFE SLAUGHTER OP-ED Kruger’s rhinos continue to face unrelenting threats and catastrophic population declines 6 min 5 By Stephanie Klarmann
TILL DEATH DO US PART ‘Environment minister’ ties the knot with her ‘one true love, Big Oil’ 4 min 6 By Kristin Engel
OFFSHORE EXPLORATION Drill, baby, drill: Environment Ministry gives Total green light for Western Cape coast offshore drilling 4 min 9 By Ed Stoddard
PRESIDENTIAL CLIMATE COMMISSION New investment pledges boost South Africa’s just energy transition funding pool to $11.8bn 3 min 2 By Ethan van Diemen
ELEPHANT HUNT OPEN LETTER Conservationists appeal for end to hunting of elephants in private reserves bordering Kruger 8 min 7 By 24 Wildlife Animal Protection Organisations
GROUNDUP Barbara Creecy chides City of Cape Town over ‘inadequate’ public engagement on sewage pumped into sea 5 min 2 By Steve Kretzmann
MARINE OUTFALLS Cape Town opens new public participation process on historic pumping of sewage into the ocean 7 min 6 By Kristin Engel
POWER CRISIS Creecy demands proof of expertise in Karpowership gas explosion risk report 4 min 14 By Tony Carnie
