Abalimi Bezekhaya is greening the Cape Flats and, at the same time, helping poor residents to gain the skills and resources needed to produce their own food.
Pretoria-based Professor Wouter van Hoven, who is undertaking the world’s largest elephant restocking programme in Angola, is perhaps best known as a modern-day Noah.
Ninety percent of Cape Town’s population of three million people can see Table Mountain from their workplace or homes, yet only 2% have ever walked on it. Six years ago the Wilderness Foundation (SA) decided to change that.
"The nation of Rubbishville was in the dark. They had rats and flies," goes the opening verse of the <i>Rat Song</i>. It paints a grim picture of a town that in 2027 is overrun by litter and disease.
Every year South African sheep and goat farmers lose millions of rands’ worth of stock to small predators like jackals and caracals. One farmer in Namaqualand estimates that in a single year predators killed 400 sheep on his farm, running up a financial loss of around R120 000.
Once hunted to the verge of extinction, Southern Right whales have not only staged a comeback but are now a major revenue earner for South Africa. These magnificent mammals are the emblem of The Green Trust Awards 2002.
Yolanda Kakabadse, president, of IUCN-THe World Conservation Union, sets the agenda for Johannesburg 2002 – and the future
Achim Steiner, director general of IUCN-The World Conservation Union, discusses the challenges of the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
WSSD 2002 should be remembered as the occasion when world leaders took bold steps to eradicate poverty and to achieve global sustainable development, says Valli Moosa, South Africa’s Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism.
Saliem Fakir, director of IUCN-South Africa Office, debates the chances of the World Summit succeeding – particularly after the failures at Bali.