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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

The staged rhino horn heist complainant who opened an allegedly false armed robbery case last year, has finally been arrested and unmasked

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

AGRICULTURAL SQUEEZE

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

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

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)

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s outrageous ideas about nature and consciousness

NOTES FROM A SMALL PLANET

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s outrageous ideas about nature and consciousness

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

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

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

PUMPING HEART OF AFRICA

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

By Fred Kockott and Kemunto Ogutu

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

ECOLOGICAL AMNESIA

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

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

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)

‘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?

Environmental ‘watchdog’ barks, but hides names of malpractice offenders

ACCOUNTABILITY GAPS

Environmental ‘watchdog’ barks, but hides names of malpractice offenders

The statutory body charged with regulating the professional competence and ethical conduct of South Africa’s environmental consultants and assessors has cracked open the door to its secret disciplinary chambers – but just by a fraction.

The plant ecology and fynbos recovery of Lower Tokai — an alternative view

FEARS OF CATASTROPHE

Sardine deaths threaten Algoa Bay’s endangered African Penguins

By Riaan Marais

PRIMATE SOLUTION OP-ED

Cape Town’s baboon crisis a last-chance conservation opportunity — fund coexistence before captivity

By David Gaynor

The Cape Town shark spotter who keeps surfers and swimmers safe

By Herman Lategan

Endangered monkeys on death row — the multibillion-rand industry that profits from primate pain

Endangered monkeys on death row — the multibillion-rand industry that profits from primate pain

By Tristen Taylor and Nathalie Bertrams

Thousands of dead fish wash up on Gqeberha beaches — authorities investigate

Thousands of dead fish wash up on Gqeberha beaches — authorities investigate

By Andisa Bonani

R10m windfall for African conservation after Australian ‘rhino rescue’ plan folds up

R10m windfall for African conservation after Australian ‘rhino rescue’ plan folds up

Protecting Botswana’s wildlife: A national responsibility and lessons for SA

Protecting Botswana’s wildlife: A national responsibility and lessons for SA

By Seretse Khama Ian Khama

How civil society safeguards South Africa’s energy future

JUST TRANSITION

How civil society safeguards South Africa’s energy future

By Jonty Cogger, Jo-Anne Smetherham, Lisa Makaula, Mpho Makhubela, Luthando Vilakazi and Claire Martens

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