# Die Tuinroete-munisipaliteit het ʼn splinternuwe platform geskep om indringerplante uit te roei. Die platform het ʼn waagmoedige, voorlopige visie om 30-persent van die indringerplante op die Tuinroete teen 2030 uit te wis. Dit sal die bewaring van biodiversiteit, watersekerheid en vermindering van veldbrande ondersteun. Burgemeester Andrew Stroebel sê indringerplante het meer aggressief toegeneem wat […]
# The Garden Route Municipality has launched a first-of-its-kind platform to combat primarily invasive alien plants. The platform has set a bold interim vision, to reduce invasive alien plants coverage across the Garden Route by 30-percent by 2030. This will support biodiversity conservation, water security, and wildfire risk reduction. Mayor Andrew Stroebel says invasive alien […]
# Die uitvoerende hoof van Coaltech SA, Avhurengwi Nengovhela, sê Afrika moet sy steenkoolbronne benut en nie op Westerse lenings staatmaak om die energiekrisis aan te pak nie. Nengovhela het sy saak vir steenkool tydens die debat oor die Billike Energie-oordrag by die Kontinentale energie- en infrastruktuurforum in Sun City, Noordwes, gestel. Hy voer aan […]
# Die hervestiging van olifante uit dieretuine in Pretoria en Johannesburg het gelei tot vurige debatte en verskeie petisies oor toegang tot wilde diere en bewaring in Suid-Afrika. Dit volg nadat Charley, die laaste olifantbul in die Pretoria-dieretuin, verskuif is na die private wildreservaat Shambala in Limpopo. Die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Instituut vir Biodiversiteit het dit […]
# Coaltech South Africa CEO Avhurengwi Nengovhela says Africa should harness its coal resources instead of relying on Western loans to tackle the energy crisis. Making his case for coal in the Just Energy Transition debate at the Continental Energy and Infrastructure Forum at Sun City, North West, Nengovhela argued that Africa has abundant coal […]
# The relocation of elephants from Pretoria and Johannesburg zoos has sparked widespread debate and petitions about wildlife access and conservation in South Africa. This follows the move of Pretoria Zoo’s last elephant bull, Charley, to Shambala Private Game Reserve in Limpopo. The decision was approved by the South African National Biodiversity Institute as a […]
# CapeNature sê hy bevorder gebruike om inheemse visse te vang en terug te gooi, en indringer-visspesies te verwyder as ʼn praktiese manier waarop hengelaars tot bewaring kan bydra. Tans word 24 van die Wes-Kaap se 35 varswater-visspesies as bedreig beskou en 73-persent van die provinsie se varswatervisse word nêrens elders in die wêreld aangetref […]
# Die Departement van Handel, Nywerheid en Mededinging het die Europese Unie versoek om sy beplande instelling van ‘n omvattende heffing op koolstof-intensiewe invoerprodukte te heroorweeg. Die EU se koolstof-aanpassingsmeganisme is ontwerp om vrystellings te verminder en seker te maak dieselfde bykomende belasting word op invoere gehef as op plaaslik-vervaardigde produkte wat baie koolstof vrystel. […]
# CapeNature says it is promoting catch-and-release fishing practices of indigenous fish species, and removal of invasive fish species as a practical way for recreational anglers to contribute to conservation. Currently, 24 of the Western Cape’s 35 freshwater fish species are listed as threatened, and 73-percent of the province’s freshwater fish are found nowhere else […]
