Latest articles on Ecosystems

Biodiversity loss threatens us all

Environment Sheree Bega - 10 Oct 2020

South Africa has not signed the Leader’s Pledge for Nature, despite the Earth’s interdependent crisis of biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation and climate change

Threads of life: We have an opportunity to restore vital ecosystems

Environment Michael J Samways - 21 May 2020

As the world celebrates International Day for Biological Diversity, we should commit to ensuring the natural world has what it needs to survive

Our wonderful wetlands need protection now

Article Martha Rojas Urrego - 14 Feb 2020

Humanity is amazed by our natural world but fails to value its importance to our survival

Africa’s path to sustainable prosperity must move in step with environmental action

Article Joyce Msuya - 15 Nov 2019

The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment wraps up in Durban today. It will hopefully provide solutions that will have tangible effects

Ban on sending wild elephants to zoos a step closer

Article Agency - 20 Aug 2019

A large majority of countries voted in Geneva to prohibit the transfer of elephants caught in the wild to so-called captive facilities

How we can restore our ecosystems

Article Scone Malone - 7 Aug 2019

To secure our long-term future, we need to move away from an extractive, transactional economy

Institute of Retirement Funds Africa’s (IRFA) conference

Article Eamonn Ryan - 26 Jul 2019

Influences that affect the retirement fund ecosystem will be in the spotlight

The theme of the IRFA conference is ‘The Retirement Ecosystem: You Have The Power’

Article Eamonn Ryan - 26 Jul 2019

An ecosystem is a complex system of living organisms, their environment and all of their interrelationships in a particular unit of space

We’re causing an insect apocalypse

Article Sipho Kings - 12 Feb 2019

About 45% of insect species will become extinct in a few decades because they can’t evolve rapidly enough in a world changed by human activities

Partnerships for the goals: The role of the shared value ecosystem

Article Staff Reporter - 18 May 2018

A business is part of an ecosystem that it must support in equal measure to the support that it receives

Coral transplant raises hope over the survival of the Barrier Reef

Article Staff Reporter - 26 Nov 2017

Coral bred in one part of the Great Barrier Reef was successfully transplanted into another area in a project that could restore damaged ecosystems

Spekboom can fix ecosystems, create jobs and suck up CO2 – if SA gets a carbon tax

Article Sipho Kings - 23 May 2017

Certain companies and some government departments oppose a carbon tax, killing off a great environmental project.

SA scientists reconstruct ancient ecosystems

Article Staff Reporter - 26 Nov 2015

Using Africa’s national parks, scientists have garnered essential information which will help refine their understanding of Earth's climate.

The Age of Man costs the Earth

Article Sipho Kings - 16 Jul 2015

The price of progress may be a reversal of the gains made unless we stop degrading ecosystems.

Mine lays claim to Mpumalanga water catchment area

Article Staff Reporter - 29 Jan 2015

The fate of land vital to South Africa's water security now rests with the ministers of mining and environmental affairs.

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Q&A Sessions: ‘I think I was born way before my time’ — Mamodupi Mohlala

nicolene de wee - 26 Nov 2020

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National

Public protector’s ‘mistakes’ were made to nail the president, court hears

Sarah Smit - 26 Nov 2020

Busisiwe Mkhwebane discarded facts that were inconvenient to her when she investigated the CR17 campaign, Cyril Ramaphosa’s lawyers argued

National

CR17 report is not perfect, but the investigation was rational, court hears

Sarah Smit - 26 Nov 2020

So says public protector Busisiwe Mkwhebane’s lawyer, who said she had reason to suspect the money was being laundered through the campaign

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special reports - 24 Nov 2020

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Inclusion as learned experience in higher education

special reports - 23 Nov 2020

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Special Reports

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special reports - 20 Nov 2020

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