# The South African Reserve Bank has warned that rising geopolitical tensions and global policy uncertainty pose major risks to the country’s financial sector. In its Financial Stability Review, the bank states that trade disputes and conflicts like the Israeli-Iranian crisis are driving up oil prices and investor caution. The review indicates this increases the […]
# Nine of the Western Cape’s twelve fishing harbours have received upgraded, high-visibility signage as part of a revitalisation effort led by Forestry, Fisheries and Environment minister Dion George. The initiative, part of the “Fishing for Freedom” tour, aims to restore dignity and boost local economies by enhancing harbour identity and functionality. Harbours like Kalk […]
# Suid-Afrika se ikoniese protea, insluitend die Koningsprotea, is besig om weens klimaatsverandering te verskuif. Byna 200 variëteite floreer nou ver van hul natuurlike Kaapse habitat waar baie uitsterwing in die gesig staar. Kenners sê stygende temperature, verlies aan habitat en veranderende brandsiklusse bedreig hierdie endemiese blomme. Deur vernuwing kweek sommige boere proteas met minimum […]
# South Africa’s iconic protea, including the King Protea, is relocating due to climate change. Nearly 200 varieties now thrive far from their native Cape habitats, where many species face extinction. Experts say rising temperatures, habitat loss, and altered fire cycles threaten these endemic flowers. Through innovation, some farmers grow proteas using minimal irrigation, aiming […]
# Tien ernstig bedreigde swartrenosters is dié week suksesvol uit Suid-Afrika hervestig in die Zinave Nasionale Park in Mosambiek. Die vyf bulle en vyf koeie is geskenk deur Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife in samewerking met Mosambiek se Nasionale Administrasie vir Bewaringsgebiede en die Vredesparke-stigting. Antony Alexander van die stigting sê die hervestiging is gedoen om die eerste […]
# Ten critically endangered black rhinos have been successfully translocated from South Africa to Mozambique’s Zinave National Park this week. The five bulls and five cows were donated by Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife in collaboration with Mozambique’s National Administration for Conservation Areas and the Peace Parks Foundation. The foundation’s Antony Alexander says the idea of the translocation […]
# Die minister van Bosbou, Visserye en die Omgewing, Dion George, sê Suid-Afrika het ʼn belangrike rol gespeel in die onderhandeling van die Verdrag oor Biodiversiteit Buite Nasionale Jurisdiksie, of die Oopsee-verdrag. Dis die eerste wetlik bindende instrument om biodiversiteit in gebiede buite nasionale grense te beskerm. George sê die land het ʼn trotse tradisie […]
# Minister of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment, Dion George, says South Africa has played a major role in negotiating the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement, known as the High Seas Treaty. This is the first legally binding instrument to protect biodiversity in areas beyond national borders. George says the country has a proud tradition of […]
# Arctic peatlands are expanding as the climate warms. New research shows this is a change that could slow global heating in the near term but have the opposite effect in future. These carbon-rich reservoirs, composed of partially decayed organic matter, only cover three percent of Earth’s surface, and generally fade out in the far […]
