Environment

Environment
Andrea Abbott

Caring for marine life and people

Biodiversity conservation is often considered only in regard to terrestrial areas of our planet. But ocean ecosystems also urgently need protection. This is the goal of Marine Protected Areas.

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Environment
Andrea Abbott

Lawn and Order

A manicured lawn – the pride and joy of enthusiastic gardeners everywhere and a millstone round their necks.

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Environment
Andrea Abbott

The bee’s knees

A straggly-looking plant that’s often dismissed as a weed turns out to be the bee’s knees.

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Opinion
Vaughan Jones

Tracy Rowles’ Vervet Monkeys Seized by KZN Wildlife – By Vaughan Jones

Tracey Rowles has so lovingly cared for orphaned and injured vervet monkeys saved from the wild for many years at her reserve, Umsizi Vervet Rescue in KwaZulu Natal. And then to learn that sixty of those vervet monkeys, who she had fully restored to health and were ready for release back into the wild, were seized by Ezemvelu KZN Wildlife.

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Environment
Blake Wilkins

Monsters and aliens scaring away predators

Technology is being brought to bear to scare away predators such as leopards in the Western Cape and bears in Japan. The devices range from alien look-a-likes to realistic wolves. Now Cape Leopard Trust is asking nature lovers to help grow its database of leopard sightings.

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Andrea Abbott
Andrea Abbott

The art of insects

One of the challenges that conservationists face is to change attitudes towards insects. One way to do so is through art.

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Opinion
Vaughan Jones

Remaking Nature – A Preposterous Notion.

The remaking or repairing is intended to be done in cities and urban areas across the world, and by way of stopping the deforestation that has been and still is being performed. Besides this being a massive task to be taken up by many international conservation and scientific institutions, my opinion is that it is practically impossible to repair or remake nature to any semblance of its original state

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