Magic comeback of the humpback by 10% a year
The moratorium on whaling has seen southern hemisphere Humpback whale populations recover dramatically. But seismic surveys off the Wild Coast are a new threat.
The moratorium on whaling has seen southern hemisphere Humpback whale populations recover dramatically. But seismic surveys off the Wild Coast are a new threat.
Arbour Week 2021 is a good time to plant an indigenous tree. A great choice is the Common Tree for 2021 – the Sweet Thorn, South Africa’s most widespread tree.
Being out in Nature and high on a mountain is guaranteed to make you feel great.
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.
A manicured lawn – the pride and joy of enthusiastic gardeners everywhere and a millstone round their necks.
A straggly-looking plant that’s often dismissed as a weed turns out to be the bee’s knees.
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.
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.
One of the challenges that conservationists face is to change attitudes towards insects. One way to do so is through art.
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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