# Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment deputy minister, Narend Singh, has urged African nations to rethink biodiversity financing strategies, as more financing is needed to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. Africa is home to more than a quarter of the world’s intact ecosystems and iconic species. Singh has warned that the extinction threat […]
# Die Vryheidsfront Plus het die Stad Tshwane se Departement van Omgewingsake versoek om die dam in die bekende Austin Roberts-voëlreservaat, wat met alge bedek is, skoon te maak. Anne-Marie Sparg van die party sê in die ander dam langs die Blue Crane Restaurant, het die grond oor die jare ingespoel en die watervlak verlaag. […]
# The Freedom Front Plus has requested that the City of Tshwane’s Department of Environmental Affairs clean the dam in the renowned Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary, which is covered in algae. The party’s, Anne-Marie Sparg, says that a different dam located next to the Blue Crane Restaurant, the soil has washed into it over the […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Weerdiens sê twee frontale stelsels word hierdie week oor die land verwag. ‘n Kouefront sal vandag die kus aan die suidwestelike deel van die land bereik, wat nat, koue en winderige toestande oor die westelike dele van die Wes-Kaap sal meebring. ‘n Weervoorspeller, Lehlohonolo Thobela, sê die nat en koue toestande sal […]
# The South African Weather Service says two cold frontal systems are expected to develop this week. A cold front will make landfall over the south-western parts of the country today, resulting in wet, cold, and windy conditions over the western parts of the Western Cape. Weather forecaster, Lehlohonolo Thobela, says tomorrow the wet and […]
# Eskom se huidige beleid oor sonkragregistrasie is nie net wetlik dubbelsinnig en finansieel moeilik haalbaar nie, maar dit loop ook die gevaar om juis die verskuiwing na dringend noodsaaklike hernubare energie te ondermyn. Dit is die mening van die sake-ontwikkelingsbestuurder van IMPOWER, Matthew Cruise. Eskom het onlangs pogings verskerp om te verseker dat alle […]
# Die minister van Water en Sanitasie, Pemmy Majodina, sê sy is tevrede met die vordering wat gemaak is by die Rooiwal- en Klipdrift-watersuiweringsaanlegte in Hammanskraal. Die minister het onlangs die aanlegte besoek om die vordering met die opknapping en opgradering van die twee fasiliteite te beoordeel. Majodina sê Rooiwal is ‘n bron van besoedeling […]
# Die Tara Ocean Foundation berig plastiekbesoedeling in die see het sedert die 1970’s vererger. Groot stukke afval soos visnette maak jaarliks meer as ʼn miljoen seevoëls en 100-duisend seediere dood. Minder sigbare mikroplastiek wat deesdae selfs in die diepste oseaan-trôe aangetref word, ontwrig mikrobiese gemeenskappe en dra gifstowwe oor aan voedselkettings. Die stigting sê […]
# Water and Sanitation minister Pemmy Majodina says she is satisfied with the progress made at the Rooiwal wastewater treatment works and Klipdrift water treatment plant in Hammanskraal. The minister visited the water treatment plants recently to assess progress on refurbishing and upgrading the two facilities. Majodina says Rooiwal has been a source of pollution […]