# Die Kaapstadse stadsraad het die Bioverskeidenheids-ruimtelike plan 2025 as raadsbeleid aanvaar. Die beleid dien as ‘n handleiding vir ruimtelike beplanning, omgewings-beoordeling en natuurlike hulpbronbestuur vir ‘n verskeidenheid sektore wie se beleide en besluite bioverskeidenheid raak. Die metro bestuur meer as 20-duisend hektaar in sy 22 natuurreservate en 16 bioverskeidenheidsooreenkoms-bewaringsgebiede. Die onderburgemeester, Eddie Andrews, sê […]
# Burgerlike organisasies en kusgemeenskappe het amptelik appèl aangeteken teen die regering se omstrede besluit om goedkeuring te gee vir Shell se Ultra Deep olie- en gasprojek aan die Weskus. Die gebied waar Shell wil ontgin, is tussen Port Nolloth in die Nood-Kaap en Lambertsbaai in die Wes-Kaap. Green Connection se woordvoerder, Neville van Rooy, […]
# A large-scale search and rescue operation is underway in the northern Indian Himalayan state of Uttarakhand after a flash flood caused a devastating torrent of mud to crash through the town. Four people are dead, while about 100 others are missing. Around 150 troops have helped rescue 20 people. Prime minister Narendra Modi says […]
# The City of Cape Town Council has adopted the Cape Town Biodiversity Spatial Plan 2025 as a council policy. The purpose of the policy is to inform and guide spatial planning, environmental assessment and natural resource management by a wide range of sectors whose policies and decisions impact biodiversity. The metro manages over 20-thousand […]
# Civil society organisations and coastal communities have launched a formal appeal against the government’s controversial decision to green-light Shell’s Northern Cape Ultra Deep oil and gas project. The area Shell wants to explore is between the Northern Cape’s Port Nolloth and Lambert’s Bay in the Western Cape. Green Connection’s Neville van Rooy says Shell’s […]
# Kaapstad se Faure Nuwe Waterskema kan moontlik as ‘n openbare-privaat vennootskap van stapel gestuur word. ‘n Voltooide haalbaarheidstudie stel ‘n openbare-privaat vennootskap-model voor as gevolg van die omvang van die projek. Die skema sal behandelde afvalwater daagliks in 70-miljoen liter drinkwater verwerk. Dit is deel van die stad se plan om die watervoorraad teen […]
# Cape Town’s Faure New Water Scheme could be rolled out as a public-private partnership. A completed feasibility study recommends the public-private partnership model due to the project’s complexity. The scheme will turn treated wastewater into 70-million litres of drinking water daily. It’s part of the city’s plan to increase supply by 300-million litres a […]
# Gemeenskappe wat naby die Kruger-wildtuin woon, verkies om wild te beskerm en nie skade aan te rig om ‘n bestaan te maak nie, eerder as om diere vir wins dood te maak. The Conversation berig navorsers het bevind dat meer as 80-persent van die inwoners alternatiewe soos kunsvlyt-toerisme, aanlyn wildgidse en bewaringswerk ondersteun. Dit […]
# Professor Richard Thompson van die Plymouth Universiteit sê ‘n ambisieuse verdrag om plastiek besoedeling te beveg kan ‘n reuse-verskil maak vir die planeet en toekomstige geslagte. Meer as 170 lande vergader hierdie week in Genève, Switzerland, om ‘n internasionale, regs-bindende verdrag oor plastiek besoedeling te ontwikkel, wat ook die mariene-omgewing insluit. Wêreldwyd word slegs […]
