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The tree-loving Georgian billionaire, the Pretoria landscaper and the SA baobab export row

The tree-loving Georgian billionaire, the Pretoria landscaper and the SA baobab export row

South Africa’s baobab export row deepens as five trees languish in Durban, a landscaper faces charges and links emerge to a billionaire tree collector in Georgia.

Freedom at what cost? — a reply to Adam Cruise on Cape Peninsula baboons

By Justin O’Riain and Joselyn Mormile

Freedom at what cost? — a reply to Adam Cruise on Cape Peninsula baboons

BUSHVELD LUNACY

Dig first, find water later: Limpopo’s industrial insanity

Dig first, find water later: Limpopo’s industrial insanity

How to make your plastic coffee cup biodegradable — most recycling bins won’t help

By Lerato Mutsila

How to make your plastic coffee cup biodegradable — most recycling bins won’t help

ANCIENT ECOSYSTEMS

Grass is far more than the lawn you lounge on

Grass is far more than the lawn you lounge on

Baobab trees seized in Durban ship warehouse probe

TIP-OFF AND BUST

Baobab trees seized in Durban ship warehouse probe

Flevian Bonareri Machoka

Kholwani Simelane

East African Crude Oil Pipeline financing: Can Standard Bank’s climate claims survive scrutiny

By Flevian Bonareri Machoka and Kholwani Simelane

Wildlife is not livestock — Aucamp’s dangerous plan to turn conservation into agriculture

Wildlife is not livestock — Aucamp’s dangerous plan to turn conservation into agriculture

Gauteng malaria spike was due to travel in flood regions, experts conclude

DELAYED DIAGNOSIS

Gauteng malaria spike was due to travel in flood regions, experts conclude

Weather service sounds El Niño alarm for North-East, including Kruger Park

SUMMER SCORCHER

Weather service sounds El Niño alarm for North-East, including Kruger Park

Dealing with conservation’s inconvenient individual

Dealing with conservation’s inconvenient individual

Response to sardine mortality must be grounded in science and evidence

Response to sardine mortality must be grounded in science and evidence

By Janet Coetzee

ROVING REPORTERS

Rhino DNA and cartridge cases — the evidence that nailed Kruger Park ranger Landela

By Fred Kockott

Rhino DNA and cartridge cases — the evidence that nailed Kruger Park ranger Landela

China’s Antarctic marine protected area has a Soviet name, with more Russian fingerprints emerging

By Tiara Walters

China’s Antarctic marine protected area has a Soviet name, with more Russian fingerprints emerging

Wits and SA universities must cut fossil fuel ties to champion climate action

By David Le Page

Wits and SA universities must cut fossil fuel ties to champion climate action

As climate shocks intensify, SA pushes for more money to adapt at COP31

By Lerato Mutsila

SA’s next generation of conservationists need laptops to turn qualifications into careers

By Lerato Mutsila

WIN FOR WILDLIFE

Hunters lose Constitutional Court challenge to animal wellbeing protections

NEGOTIATING WITH NATURE

SA heads to COP17 with a practical plan to halt biodiversity loss

By Lerato Mutsila

The arrogance of scientific certainty — Cape Town’s baboons deserve ethics, not imprisonment

The arrogance of scientific certainty — Cape Town’s baboons deserve ethics, not imprisonment

Justin O’Riain may know a great deal about baboon behaviour, but ecological expertise does not confer moral authority to decide that wild animals must surrender their freedom. The proposed captivity of two Cape Peninsula baboon troops exposes a deeper failure in conservation: the persistent refusal to recognise that science alone cannot answer fundamentally ethical questions.

POLITICALLY AWEH

Drill, Baby, Drill — Who’s reading the fine print at African Energy Week?

By Politically Aweh

DEAD IN THE WATER OP-ED

Silent crisis — starving penguins, dying sardines and a government gambling with species extinction

Former ‘crown prince of the Kruger’ Park found guilty of rhino poaching

By Fred Kockott

Delayed captive lion exit plan leaves jobs and livelihoods in limbo

By Kamalasen Chetty

Is SA’s novel spekboom restoration a new soil carbon-farming frontier?

Is SA’s novel spekboom restoration a new soil carbon-farming frontier?

By Leonie Joubert

How to protect yourself from El Niño’s extreme heat

How to protect yourself from El Niño’s extreme heat

By Lerato Mutsila

SA helps feed China’s huge desert fish-farming boom

OUTLAW OCEAN PROJECT

SA helps feed China’s huge desert fish-farming boom

The price paid beyond the plate — the huge costs of farmed seafood

OUTLAW OCEAN PROJECT

The price paid beyond the plate — the huge costs of farmed seafood

Jane of Waterfall speaks to the tall tailless

Jane of Waterfall speaks to the tall tailless

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