Eco Minute 13:30

BULLETIN 15 July 1:30 pm

Good afternoon, here is your Eco Minute:

# The three-day National Treasury Climate Resilience Symposium is underway in Pretoria under the theme, Moving the Needle on Climate Change and Just Transition: the Role of the National Treasury. The objectives of the symposium are to integrate climate goals into macro-fiscal and finance policy, and improve government coordination by mainstreaming climate change considerations into the intergovernmental fiscal system. Treasury’s Georgina Ryan says South Africa’s Just Energy Transition will come under the spotlight:

# The Dubai International Airport is currently hosting world-renowned South African photographer Chris Fallows’ latest exhibition The 11th Hour. He has spent over three decades photographing the planet’s majestic wildlife icons that are quickly going extinct. The photos in the exhibition range from elephants that are being wiped out through poaching and trafficking of ivory, to wandering albatrosses which 15 out of the 22 species are threatened with extinction. Fallows says more must be done to protect wildlife:

# And finally, Egyptian vultures, extinct in South Africa for decades, will be reintroduced and homed in Hartbeespoort, North West. The two African Egyptian vultures, which come from World Bird Sanctuary and San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance in the US, are joining VulPro’s breeding programme. They are currently in quarantine at Johannesburg’s Lory Park Zoo. The bird’s ultimate home will be the Shamwari private game reserve in the Eastern Cape. VulPro founder Keri Wolter says the Egyptian vulture, also known as Pharaoh’s Chicken, is one of the most fascinating birds in the world.

Stay tuned for more news………….