Bees – An Essential Part of Your Food Security Photo Credit: WWF When you think about bees, what comes to mind? Honey? Beeswax? A painful sting? There’s more to bees than we know – much more. Aside from the delicious honey they make, bees are incredibly
Addressing Food Security in Langa Photo Credit: WWF In a country where 28 million people are on grants, including 10 million on Covid-19 grants, it makes no sense that local government does not receive a food security budget, nor have people specifically assigned to address this.
Twenty years of 'yes' or 'no' to seafood Photo Credit: WWF Who would have thought we could scan or type the name of any fish or seafood into an app and immediately get its risk status and a simple 'yes' or 'no' answer as to whether
Expansion of SA’s protected areas requires management skills © South Africa has to practically and affordably expand its natural environment protection areas to conserve its critical biodiversity and ecosystem services. These include carbon sequestration, clean air, healthy soils, fresh water, healthy insect populations for pollination, and
Gifting sustainably this giving season! Planning to be a little more sustainable this festive season when it comes to your gifting? Sustainable gifting isn't a new idea, but it is changing. Gifting sustainably is no longer just about the environmental impact we have on the planet as
Giant leap for hunger in SA through food donations regulations ‘Within the next year we are hoping to have national food donation regulations in place that would enable us to recover far more good, edible surplus food that is currently going to waste every year, and which
Catchment conservation key to South Africa’s water supply © An avid fly-fisherman and author of a novel on flyfishing, Andrew Fowler has spent a lifetime exploring the Drakensberg rivers. ‘Over the years I have witnessed the degradation in the formerly pristine waters of catchments like the
Catchment conservation key to South Africa’s water supply © Over the years there has been a degradation in the formerly pristine waters of catchments like the uMngeni and iNzinga, with an insidious increase in dirty water and agricultural pollution. In order to address the issue, the
Boosting food production and livelihoods in our rural areas Photo Credit: Ayanda Cele The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the food and livelihood vulnerabilities of communities in South Africa, leaving millions of people in dire straits. It called for proactive engagements with communities, like helping them to plant
Water - the central pillar of the greater Kruger economy Photo Credit: Nomonde Mxhalisa Water conservation, small- and large-scale farming, job opportunities, wildlife conservation and illegal wildlife monitoring and control go hand in hand in the greater Kruger National Park (KNP) region. The park is a
