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Netters try to catch sardines at the Amanzimtoti beach, south of Durban on July 3, 2019. – Like the running of the bulls in Spain, the migration of the wild-beast across Kenya, the sardine run along South Africa’s East Coast is an annual event attracting thousands of locals and tourists. Each year massive shoals of sardines stretching hundreds of miles draw thousands of sharks, dolphins and gannets hovering above the fish. Masses of fishermen, locals line the shores to watch, catch and some sell them. (RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP)
ALBI MODISE

Call for SA to join 30% conservation target to stem nature loss, climate change

But others argue that the conservation plan will amount to the ‘biggest land grab in history’

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
, on February 8 – Soybean fields in Argentina are often fumigated with glyphosate, a herbicide which is probably carcinogenic according to the World Health Organization (WHO), but which is needed to maintain crops of transgenic seeds. The first trial for the possible effects of Round Up -Monsanto’s polemic herbicide containing gliphosate- starts on July […]
BANS

EU ships banned bee-killing pesticides to South Africa and other countries

Neonicotinoid, manufactured by Syngenta and Beyer, is banned in the European Union because it kills pollinators and causes other environmental harms

  • Sheree Bega
12 min read
A ‘cancer causing’ herbicide has been found in South Africa’s bread and flour. (Photo by Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
AFRICAN CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY

A ‘cancer causing’ herbicide has been found in South Africa’s bread and flour

About half of South Africa’s maize crop and 100% of the soya crop is genetically modified — it’s grown with the use of glyphosate. But Bayer South Africa disagrees that it causes…

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read