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Inside SA's fishing industry: Neels Loff — from indigenous fisherman to criminalised poacher
TROUBLED WATERS

Inside SA's fishing industry: Neels Loff — from indigenous fisherman to criminalised poacher

A conversation about night dives, guns, drugs and police bribes.

By Don Pinnock
WEATHER WOES

Kruger Park makes heartbreaking appeal after deluge as it marks its centenary: ‘We cannot rebuild without help’

By Tiara Walters
Kruger Park makes heartbreaking appeal after deluge as it marks its centenary: ‘We cannot rebuild without help’
JUMBO DEBATE

Elephant hunting in Botswana is not in crisis — the data denies it

By Robert Kröger
Elephant hunting in Botswana is not in crisis — the data denies it
TROUBLED WATERS

Inside SA’s fishing industry: Travis Daniels — at one with the sea

By Don Pinnock
Inside SA’s fishing industry: Travis Daniels — at one with the sea
TROUBLED WATERS

From thriving to idle — a fishing family’s tale of change in Kalk Bay

By Don Pinnock
From thriving to idle — a fishing family’s tale of change in Kalk Bay
Beyond a crisis — we’re in a new era of global ‘water bankruptcy’, says UN report
DRAINED AND OVERDRAWN

Beyond a crisis — we’re in a new era of global ‘water bankruptcy’, says UN report

By Tony Carnie
After Kruger Park storms, love and grief in the time of floods spur the spirit of solidarity
WEATHER WOES REFLECTION

After Kruger Park storms, love and grief in the time of floods spur the spirit of solidarity

By Tiara Walters
Families are seeing the financial impact of recycling
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Families are seeing the financial impact of recycling

By The Glass Recycling Company
Inside SA’s fishing industry: Colin Attwood on counting the uncountable and the science of tracking fish
TROUBLED WATERS

Inside SA’s fishing industry: Colin Attwood on counting the uncountable and the science of tracking fish

By Don Pinnock
Conservation by the bullet: SA’s hunting statistics and the industrial slaughter of wildlife
ECONOMY OF DEATH OP-ED

Conservation by the bullet: SA’s hunting statistics and the industrial slaughter of wildlife

By Adam Cruise
When the rivers rose, they stayed - how Hoedspruit’s volunteers became the ‘safari capital’s’ flood defence
WEATHER WOES

When the rivers rose, they stayed - how Hoedspruit’s volunteers became the ‘safari capital’s’ flood defence

By Tiara Walters
Navigating sustainability — Doug Butterworth on SA’s fishing industry challenges
TROUBLED WATERS

Navigating sustainability — Doug Butterworth on SA’s fishing industry challenges

By Don Pinnock
ANCIENT KNOW-HOW

KZN team finds ‘oldest evidence’ of arrow poison use by humans on 60,000-year-old arrowheads

By Shaun Smillie
KZN team finds ‘oldest evidence’ of arrow poison use by humans on 60,000-year-old arrowheads
TROUBLED WATERS

How policy failures cripple Mossel Bay's fishing industry

By Don Pinnock
How policy failures cripple Mossel Bay's fishing industry
TROUBLED WATERS

Inside SA's fishing industry — it's more about survival, says Tim Reddell of Viking Fishing

By Don Pinnock
Inside SA's fishing industry — it's more about survival, says Tim Reddell of Viking Fishing
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Proven Impact: How Anthem is Delivering Clean Power and Driving Growth and Socio-Economic Impact

By Anthem
ECOLOGICAL PERIL OP-ED

Elephants or marula trees? A plant ecologist’s uneasy view from the Kruger Park

By Eugene Moll
TROUBLED WATERS

From abundance to collapse — navigating the state of South Africa’s fishing industry

By Don Pinnock
WEATHER WOES

Hoedspruit, gateway to Kruger, drenched as rivers swell, airport closes, tourists airlifted

By Tiara Walters
Maverick Earth — a new era for environmental journalism
RELAUNCH

Maverick Earth — a new era for environmental journalism

Maverick Earth launches today as a renewed commitment to deep, investigative environmental journalism.

By Don Pinnock
TROUBLED WATERS

Mapping South Africa's fishing industry — a conversation with Shaheen Moolla

By Don Pinnock
NOTES FROM A SMALL PLANET

Exploring our ecological consciousness through Carl Sagan's perspective on Earth

By Don Pinnock
MIXED BLESSING

Kruger National Park evacuates camps as severe weather warnings hit Limpopo and Mpumalanga

By Siyabonga Goni
FEEL THE HEAT

Climate crisis vs job security — how President’s fresh PCC picks aim to calm SA’s just transition jitters

By Naledi Sikhakhane
Coal demand hit record high in 2025, confounding its obituary writers
POWER BANK

Coal demand hit record high in 2025, confounding its obituary writers

By Ed Stoddard
Wetter skies to ease heat in 2026 but raise flood risk across SA’s interior provinces
LOOKING AHEAD

Wetter skies to ease heat in 2026 but raise flood risk across SA’s interior provinces

By Lerato Mutsila
Jane Goodall’s legacy of courage and hope
PEOPLE OF THE YEAR 2025

Jane Goodall’s legacy of courage and hope

By Tiara Walters
Environmental disaster: John Steenhuisen on how to march backwards
DIRTBAG OF THE YEAR

Environmental disaster: John Steenhuisen on how to march backwards

By Don Pinnock
Botswana’s huge elephant gamble could destroy its ‘conservation reputation’, say scientists
ANALYSIS

Botswana’s huge elephant gamble could destroy its ‘conservation reputation’, say scientists

By Don Pinnock

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