Fiona Macleod

Fiona Macleod is an environmental writer for the Mail & Guardian newspaper and editor of the M&G Greening the Future and Investing in the Future supplements.

She is also editor of Lowveld Living magazine in Mpumalanga.

An award-winning journalist, she was previously environmental editor of the M&G for 10 years and was awarded the Nick Steele award for environmental conservation.

She is a former editor of Earthyear magazine, chief sub-editor and assistant editor of the M&G, editor-in-chief of HomeGrown magazines, managing editor of True Love and production editor of The Executive.

She served terms on the judging panels of the SANParks Kudu Awards and The Green Trust Awards. She also worked as a freelance writer, editor and producer of several books, including Your Guide to Green Living, A Social Contract: The Way Forward and Fighting for Justice.

Headless cats and government promises back in 2005

Article Fiona Macleod & Yolandi Groenewald - 22 Mar 2019

Government interest in the pollution claims appears to have been aroused by Constitutional Court action launched against President Thabo Mbeki

Business as a force for good

Article Fiona Macleod - 25 Nov 2016

The business sector takes the lead in the development of implementation of interventions

Moz set to seize pirate fishing ship

Article Luis Nhachote & Fiona Macleod - 9 Jan 2015

The vessel has looted millions of rands' worth of fish in a decade-long onslaught on the ocean.

South African breeders buck the system

Article Fiona Macleod - 11 Dec 2014

The sale of wildlife to Angolan parks has sparked a row over the spread of species to areas in which they do not occur naturally.

Kruger Park’s sugar road to rhino hell

Article Fiona Macleod - 6 Nov 2014

Poachers are using corporate canelands as an open "highway" from Mozambique into the Kruger National Park.

New wildlife commission targets rhino horn syndicates

Article Fiona Macleod - 9 Oct 2014

A new international justice commission based in The Hague is to deal with criminals who smuggle rhino horns through Mozambique.

From turtle butcher to saviour

Article Fiona Macleod - 27 Jun 2014

Sudley Adams Memorial Award - Winner: The Makotikoti Art Project

Botswana minister in lion-trade scandal

Africa Fiona Macleod & Lawrence Seretse - 5 Dec 2013

In his latest lion deal, agriculture minister Christian de Graaff exported a huge shipment of lions to a canned hunting outfit in South Africa.

A woman of substance and beauty

Article Fiona Macleod - 19 Jul 2013

Adelaide Tambo's daughter, Tselane, is celebrating “Ma Tambo’s” appreciation of beautiful things.

Illegal fishing on high seas leaves poor countries floundering

Article Fiona Macleod - 19 Jul 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa loses about $1.5-billion a year to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the high seas.

Saving energy matters now more than ever

Article Fiona Macleod - 31 May 2013

Research shows that the global concentration of CO2 emissions has risen to a level not seen in two million years.

‘We’ve hit the tipping point’

Article Fiona Macleod - 12 Apr 2013

Ecofriendly products and methods are now regarded as essential, not mere indulgences.

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Press Releases

Special Reports

Dr Sumy Thomas: Deciphering the human puzzle, from the inside out

special reports - 4 Dec 2020

The Discovery Foundation MGH Fellowship Award recipient for 2020 will focus on internal medicine, particularly the endocrine system of patients affected by HIV

Special Reports

Touching lives through innovation

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

Africa has a high youth population that adapts to technology quickly, and this phenomenon is something which should be taken advantage of

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Festive Reading

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

In The Whistleblowers, Mandy Wiener talks to a wide range of the people who have revealed corruption and malfeasance in government and business

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Centre for Women & Gender Studies

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

The CWGS aims to resuscitate the histories of African women from all walks of life in an intellectual cleansing/ukuhlambulula of her story

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Greening the Future

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

The awards are a way of encouraging progress and celebrating those who wake up every day and work to make this country a better more sustainable place

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Failing to learn the lessons? The impact of Covid-19 on a Broken and Unequal Education System

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

If the president was serious about fixing basic education, he would appoint his most competent minister with a powerful mandate to start fixing it

Special Reports

National Science and Technology Forum

special reports - 27 Nov 2020

It's an independent SETI platform, an essential element of an active democracy and an important part of the collaboration process needed in SETI

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Milestones over the NSTF’s 25-year history

special reports - 27 Nov 2020

The organisation celebrates its Silver Jubilee as an established player in the NSI and as promoter and influencer of SET and innovation in South Africa