Creator
Michelle Nel
Michelle Nel has worked as a freelance environmental journalist, photographer and editor for more than 20 years. She is a member of Al Gore’s Climate Leadership Corps and was the first freelancer to win the SAB Environmentalist Journalist of the Year Award for print. She serves on the Linbro Park Environmental Monitoring Committee in Gauteng, which aims to turn a closed landfill site into a recycling and recreational area. She has helped numerous organisations with their communications strategies on issues ranging from people and parks to wetlands.
R1.1-billion land claim ‘captured’
This story was produced in partnership with Pulitzer Center. Details of the land claim settlement for MalaMala, one of South Africa’s most exclusive game reserves, are unlikely…
Science sets the pace
‘When we spend on natural resource protection, we are paying global bills’
Cosatu breaks stereotypes about climate justice
‘Climate jobs’ are more secure, require more skills and are cleaner
Tilting at smokestacks in south Durban
Desmond D’Sa has rallied the community of Durban south in a fight for health
Climate change hits the poor hardest
When agricultural growth seasons change, and you are farming marginal land or for subsistence, you are most vulnerable, says Beaumont
Ambassador for the planet
Nozipho Mxakato-Diseko is working to advance the position of developing countries
Dogged determination catches smugglers
Rhino Conservation Award – Winner: Endangered Wildlife Trust Rhino Project
An unfinished story
Rhino Conservation Award – Runner-up: Wildlands Conservation Trust
Bird’s eye view on poachers
Rhino Conservation Award – Runner-up: The Zululand Anti-Poaching Wing
Saving rhinos through information
Wessa Rhino Initiative is the runner-up in the Rhino Rescue Award.
Protecting biodiversity through innovative initiatives
Wildlands Conservation Trust is the runner-up in the Biodiversity Stewardship Award.
Fixing leaks beyond the factory fence-line
Water Sense by Sasol wins the Water Management Award.
Teamwork to fight rhino poaching
Project Rhino KZN wins the Rhino Rescue Award.
Wise ways to use wetlands
Wise Use of Wetlands Project by the Association for Water & Rural Development is the winner of the Biodiversity Stewardship Award.
Bonn-fire of the vanities?
Negotiations for a new protocol to reduce carbon emissions have been slow but temperatures continue to rise.