Fiona Macleod

Controversial animal dealer Riccardo Ghiazza has bought Thor, a famous white lion whose face has launched a thousand PR campaigns. Thor is the second-generation offspring of the original white lions of Timbavati, who were first spotted west of the Kruger park in the mid-1970s.

Durban mayor Obed Mlaba and Archbishop Desmond Tutu this week joined former Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev to produce an alternative vision of the future of the planet. Other Nobel peace laureates and mayors of large cities around the world also endorsed Gorbachev’s "Johannesburg Declaration".

The Johannesburg summit reached some major milestones and hit some hold-ups on the journey to sustainable development. Water and sanitation, biodiversity, chemicals, global warming, poverty, marine resources and sustainable consumption were all addressed.

Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli Moosa played into the hands of the world’s biggest polluters in order to settle the biggest fight at the Summit. Moosa was chairperson of the ministerial committee that clinched agreement on energy and climate change.

Sasol and Eskom are shortlisted to receive Greenwash Academy Awards, given on the eve of the World Summit on Sustainable Development to corporations accused of "acting — but not behaving — green".

Two American natural resource economists are working on a revolutionary conservation strategy that world leaders at the World Summit on Sustainable Development should bear in mind during their talk-fest in Sandton.

The Pretoria High Court has suspended the death sentence hanging over Baixinha, a highly endangered black rhino due to be killed in a "canned" hunt on a farm in North West province.

The future of the planet is being decided behind closed doors in Sandton. Media and the uninvited are not welcome at the tough negotiating sessions making the key decisions at the Jo’burg’s World Summit on Sustainable Development.

UP to 1_000 elephants that were due to be culled in terms of the Kruger National Park?s conservation management plan will be given a new lease of life in neighbouring Mozambique. About 100 Kruger elephants are scheduled to be released in Mozambique between October and the end of the year, while the rest will be […]

A South African is accused of manipulating wildlife trading permits in endangered species.

Animal welfare activists have had to step in to protect a pack of dogs from angry residents after more than 40 people were attacked in a fortnight.

Thirty wild baboons trapped for laboratory experiments have been confiscated by Northern Province conservation officials.