Saving the world’s oldest protected estuary
A huge environmental restoration project aims to save one of the world’s most important estuaries threatened by climate change. Report by Yolandi Groenewald...
22 February, 2016
Author: Oxpeckers Reporters
The heat is on Africa’s health
[caption id="attachment_53" align="alignright" width="248"] Leading message from participants in the annual People's Climate March in New York. Photo © https://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/[/caption] Heat exhaustion is likely to occur when the human body's temperature...
16 February, 2016
SA makes global history with highest temperatures
[caption id="attachment_6287" align="alignnone" width="2836"] October 27 2015 will be remembered as the record-breaking hottest October day on Earth.[/caption] This new high was set in Vredendal, a small town in the Western...
16 February, 2016
2015 the hottest year ever recorded
[caption id="attachment_3876" align="alignright" width="300"] The study projects an increase in warmer temperatures of 4-6 ℃ over the subtropics and 3-5 ℃ over the tropics by the end of the century....
16 February, 2016
SA’s maize crop down 36% due to drought
[caption id="attachment_3882" align="alignright" width="300"] This season's rainfall, compared to the past 35 years. © WFP-VAM[/caption] South Africa has issued a preliminary forecast of maize production for the coming harvest of 7.4...
15 February, 2016
‘Death is part of the circle of life’
Should game reserves intervene to save wildlife during climate change? Yolandi Groenewald took the debate to a drought-stricken protected area that has been forced to take preventative measures...
27 January, 2016
Open letter to the Minister on Tsitsikamma MPA
After Oxpeckers published articles on the opening of the Tsitsikamma protected area to fishing, a marine scientist sent us a plea explaining why this is a bad idea...
22 January, 2016
‘Drought could kill more rhinos than poaching’
Conservationists are warning that South Africa’s drought might represent a bigger threat to rhinos, and wildlife in general, than poaching. Yolandi Groenewald reports...
18 January, 2016
Murky deals, exploited communities
Nicky Rehbock, global campaigns officer for Corruption Watch and Transparency International, wrote this blog about the Mala Mala Files for Corruption Watch Connected...
15 January, 2016
Small victory for marine protected area
A settlement prevents fishing in the Tsitsikamma marine protected area for now, but does not affect draft regulations for its re-zoning, writes Louise de Bruin...
12 January, 2016