Fiona Macleod The future of conservation lies in the hands of communities and individuals like those involved in the Klipkop Conservancy, said the judges when they moved this project from the Natural Resources category to Overall Winner (Emerging) this year. The story of the Klipkop Conservancy started when the Loots family bought a farm about […]

Using nature’s gifts to fill their needs Hilary Fine Dreams of a healthier planet and a self-sufficient community prompted educators at Bathurst Primary, near Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape, to infuse an environmental ethos into everything they do. “Our aim is to develop a sanctuary of learning where respect for the world we live […]

Congress Mahlangu The government, through the Ministry of Environmental Affairs and Tourism and the South African National Parks (SANP), will host the World Park Congress at the International Convention Centre in Durban on September 18 and 19 2003. The theme of the congress is “Benefits beyond boundaries” and it will review the global status of […]

Barry Streek Nearly 4 000 movements of the Earth, scientifically labelled as “seismic events”, have happened in South Africa over the past six years, 630 of them last year. But the majority of them are small and insignificant. Although one of these events recently caused a house to collapse in Welkom, in the Free State, […]

Cranes make a comeback Joy Webber Blue crane populations are making a comeback. So are the other crane species. During much of the 1980s and 1990s the population of South Africa’s national bird the blue crane fell by almost 80%. But now numbers are on the increase, despite the fact that these birds are still […]

Winner: Klipkop Conservancy Prize: R15 000, sponsored by Nedbank and The Green Trust Judges’ comments: “A remarkable project that has brought together a community in a shared responsibility for natural resources. They are putting passion and their own resources into conserving biodiversity and rehabilitating animals. It is a new project, but it promises to be […]

Winner: Treverton School and Wildlife Area Prize: R15 000, sponsored by Nedbank and The Green Trust Judges’ comments: “Treverton was the founder of environmental education in Southern Africa. Over the past 22 years, it has been at the cutting edge of environmental education, changing with the dictates of the times. “Its programmes have grown out […]

Lisa O’Carroll and Mark Tran The Industry Standard, the magazine that came to symbolise the dot.com boom, has closed after falling victim to the Internet collapse. It will file for bankruptcy unless a last-minute buyer can be found. Its collapse symbolises the dashing of yet another dot.com dream for San Francisco’s digerati, who enjoyed legendary […]

Barry Streek About 350 NGOs and community-based organisations (CBOs) are rendering a variety of services and programmes to prisoners. Both the internal and external programmes by NGOs and CBOs are being reviewed and evaluated to determine the extent to which they address the needs of prisoners, including rehabilitation. This was disclosed by Minister of Correctional […]

This year’s South African Fashion Week provides an opportunity for designer shopping with a special runway open to the public Zaheda Mohamed The countdown has begun as the South African fashion industry gears up for what is believed to be the biggest fashion event of the year. Publicist Estelle Cooper says audiences at South African […]