Invasive trees suck up 3% to 5% of surface water runoff each year while invasive plants reduce the value of livestock production from natural rangelands by R340 million per year
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Minister Barbara Creecy said electric fences, bees and other methods were tried before the elephants were killed
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KwaZulu-Natal remains the epicentre for poaching and the Hluhluwe–iMfolozi Park appears to be fighting a losing battle against the crime
The president announced the fund last week as a joint effort between the government and the private sector to mitigate the damage caused by extreme weather
The Fishing Rights Allocation Process was ‘rushed and haphazardly allocated’ says lawyer
The numbers are difficult to quantify because most carcasses are scavenged quickly and disappear
But its political clout is limited with regard to mining, and oil and gas exploration with resistance from the Mantashe camp around environmental authorisations
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South Africa has had a mixed bag of environmental ministers over the past 30 years and, bar a few, most have taken the environmental agenda forward
Climate finance is expected to be a big talking point at COP28, as developing countries ask developed nations to pay up
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This comes as Karpowership secures authorisation for Saldanha Bay project
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Developing countries, including South Africa, will argue for a financial mechanism to help them curb plastic pollution
Developed nations need to deliver on the funds they pledged in the past
Legislation will compel the government to act on climate change but there are still several concerns
The forestry, fisheries and the environment minister said more than 7 000 snares were removed last year alone
The Petrus Steyn breeder on the farm Steilfontein was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment or a fine of R4 000
Minister Barbara Creecy says African countries need ‘a new suite of financing instruments, with a set of favourable terms and conditions that are not debt generators’
Environmental groups argue that Steelmaker ArcelorMittal South Africa is emitting the toxic gas at levels in excess of those prohibited
A fishing association has said it is concerned about the endangered penguins, but that the limits on fishing must not threaten the industry
But it is no ‘miracle intervention’ to save the imperilled seabirds, minister stresses
But measures such as law enforcement authorities working together have resulted in a decline in the number of animals killed
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Barbara Creecy gives the Turkish company another opportunity to proceed with its application to provide power to South Africa from Richards Bay
South Africa’s environment minister and her Danish counterpart will review achievements of the Paris Agreement’s goals for COP28 in Dubai
Senzo Mchunu must provide an affidavit in 45 court days stating what has been done to deal with the problem
Jobs are already in short supply in Dipaleseng, near the Mpumalanga plant
Activists say the deaths of vulnerable people is too high a price to pay for electricity when alternatives are available
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The environment minister was responding to a Democratic Alliance parliamentary question
The public enterprises minister said climate change had to be addressed but the shift to clean energy had to consider South Africa’s economic reality
Minister reaches out-of-court settlement with wildlife ranchers and hunters over ‘draconian’ regulations
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The national energy regulator believes gas projects will help reduce load-shedding
The exemption will have a major effect on people’s health, say environmental justice groups
Creecy’s department presents roadmap on how to achieve 23 green targets set by the global ‘Paris Agreement for nature’ framework
Cabinet sources argue the state of disaster will take away the powers of more ministers than just that of the forestry and fisheries minister
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