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SA doesn’t know how many leopards it has. Trophy hunting quotas are set

SA doesn’t know how many leopards it has. Trophy hunting quotas are set

South Africans have until 4 October to comment on a national plan for one of the country’s most elusive predators. Leopard estimates range from a mere couple of thousand to more than 23,000 individuals.

By Tiara Walters

ECOLOGICAL ALARM

Beautiful region, scary findings: CapeNature’s latest report card

Beautiful region, scary findings: CapeNature’s latest report card

ROVING REPORTERS

Conservation needs less doom and more doing, says world-leading ecologist

By Matthew Hattingh and Fred Kockott

Conservation needs less doom and more doing, says world-leading ecologist

Baboons on your radar: What do you really know?

Baboons on your radar: What do you really know?

ROVING REPORTERS

From stars to soil — ecologist Yadvinder Malhi brings physics to the living world

By Fred Kockott and Kemunto Ogutu

From stars to soil — ecologist Yadvinder Malhi brings physics to the living world

South Africa’s lion bone trade — the consequences the government never considered

South Africa’s lion bone trade — the consequences the government never considered

State refinery ‘renaissance’ plan raises fresh questions over pollution, health and taxpayer risk

POLLUTION LEGACY

State refinery ‘renaissance’ plan raises fresh questions over pollution, health and taxpayer risk

Inside the Gauteng caves where rocks reveal the mysteries of Homo naledi

ROVING REPORTERS

Inside the Gauteng caves where rocks reveal the mysteries of Homo naledi

By Fred Kockott

Truce between lions and farmers claws back hope in Botswana’s Okavango Delta

HUMAN-WILDLIFE COMPACT

Truce between lions and farmers claws back hope in Botswana’s Okavango Delta

By Clifford Roberts

Wildlife trafficking net widens — Hawks nab a fifth suspect on World Rhino Day

HORN HEIST ARREST

Wildlife trafficking net widens — Hawks nab a fifth suspect on World Rhino Day

Great white shark spotted in False Bay after eight-year absence

Great white shark spotted in False Bay after eight-year absence

Deserving Africa wants its climate funding

HOMEGROWN SOLUTIONS

Deserving Africa wants its climate funding

By Seth Onyango

Cape Town risks ‘monument to management failure’ just before municipal elections

By Stefania Seveso-Falcon

Cape Town risks ‘monument to management failure’ just before municipal elections

DEADLY FAILURE OP-ED

A collar was not enough: Botswana’s failure to protect its research elephants from trophy hunters

A collar was not enough: Botswana’s failure to protect its research elephants from trophy hunters

HARD ROW TO HOE

Bread & Wine: What’s the future of wheat and wine farming? (Part Six)

Bread & Wine: What’s the future of wheat and wine farming? (Part Six)

SPOTS ON THE LINE

Roads versus roams — can culverts save Greater Kruger’s leopards on deadly R40 highway

By Tiara Walters

Bread & Wine: The chemical trail through wheat and grapes (Part Five)

AGRICULTURAL SQUEEZE

Bread & Wine: When the wheat stops paying (Part Four)

THE GATHERING 2026

City of Cape Town denies it’s facing an ocean ‘sewage calamity’

Bread & Wine: What it takes to grow a glass of wine (Part Three)

Industry Reality

Bread & Wine: What it takes to grow a glass of wine (Part Three)

Retired farmer Johan Simons explains why the old joke still holds: to make a small fortune from wine, begin with a large one. What follows is a conversation about living soil, natural yeast, weeds, wildfire and an industry increasingly kept alive by money made elsewhere.

NOTES FROM A SMALL PLANET

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s outrageous ideas about nature and consciousness

Enforcement Powers

We’re not coming for your dogs and cats, says City over pet licensing uproar

Heavy breathing

Mpumalanga community speaks out as study links Sasol pollution to 1,000 deaths

By Lerato Mutsila

PUMPING HEART OF AFRICA

Congo Basin loss could trigger water wars across Africa — ex-Gabon minister Lee White

By Fred Kockott and Kemunto Ogutu

Bread & Wine: A land that can forget itself (Part Two)

ECOLOGICAL AMNESIA

Bread & Wine: A land that can forget itself (Part Two)

Rabid seals bite at least 176 people as fatal disease spreads, threatening other species

COASTAL OUTBREAK

Rabid seals bite at least 176 people as fatal disease spreads, threatening other species

Bread & Wine: The loaf and the cup — an origins story (Part One)

Bread & Wine: The loaf and the cup — an origins story (Part One)

‘They’ve found sheep up in trees’ — inside Britain’s ‘black leopard’ mystery

‘They’ve found sheep up in trees’ — inside Britain’s ‘black leopard’ mystery

By Tiara Walters

Trophy hunting quotas: Civil society objected, but did anyone in government listen?

Trophy hunting quotas: Civil society objected, but did anyone in government listen?

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