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3 weeks ago | 
goodthingsguy.com | John Yeld |Ashleigh Nefdt
The property in the heart of Noordhoek will also be an open space for the community. Noordhoek, South Africa (30 March 2025) — An anonymous benefactor has stepped in to purchase a small but environmentally crucial wedge-shaped strip of property in the heart of Noordhoek. This generous act secures a signficant local breeding habitat for the endangered Western Leopard Toad. Erf 4741, or No. 2 Silvermine Road, at the intersection of busy Noordhoek Main Road and Silvermine Road, is just 716m2.
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1 month ago | 
theherald.co.za | Ernest Mabuza |John Yeld
Young adult African penguins swimming at the Boulders Penguin Colony near Simon’s Town, Cape Town. The court order provides for the delineations of no-take zones for the commercial sardine and anchovy fishery around six key African penguin breeding colonies that lie within coastal areas where the commercial fisheries operate.
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1 month ago | 
goodthingsguy.com | John Yeld |Ashleigh Nefdt
“Miracle” iris emerges after decades under a pine plantation. Stellenbosch, South Africa (07 March 2025) — The recent discovery of a stunning new indigenous plant following the felling of a decades-old pine plantation at Stellenbosch has been hailed by plant lovers and conservationists as a botanical miracle.
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1 month ago | 
mg.co.za | Des Erasmus |John Yeld
The recent discovery of a stunning new indigenous plant following the felling of a decades-old pine plantation at Stellenbosch has been hailed by plant lovers and conservationists as a botanical miracle. A handful of these beautiful plants of the Moraea genus emerged on the slopes of Botmaskop on the Helshoogte Pass, just 50 or so metres from the border fence of the planned Botmaskop luxury housing estate.
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1 month ago | 
gardenandhome.co.za | Maegan-Leigh Jacobs |John Yeld
The recent discovery of a stunning new indigenous plant following the felling of a decades-old pine plantation at Stellenbosch has been hailed by plant lovers and conservationists as a botanical miracle. A handful of these beautiful plants of the Moraea genus emerged on the slopes of Botmaskop on the Helshoogte Pass, just 50 or so metres from the border fence of the planned Botmaskop luxury housing estate.
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2 months ago | 
bizcommunity.com | John Yeld |Wendell Roelf
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Clean-up continues and conservationist is impressed with the response. Beaches along the West Coast were soiled with oil spilling from the wreck of the MV Ultra Galaxy which ran aground in July 2024. Photo: Annalize Barnard / GroundUp Clean-up operations continue on West Coast beaches after an oil spill from the wreck of MV Ultra Galaxy. A local conservationist says she is impressed by the quick response from authorities.
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2 months ago | 
bizcommunity.com | John Yeld |Wendell Roelf |Nokulunga Majola
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Source of the oil not yet confirmed, but locals suspect the wreck of the MV Ultra Galaxy. A drone image of oil at the main beach in Strandfontein on the West Coast. Photo: Tania Fouche / GroundUp About 40km of West Coast beaches have been polluted by an oil slick which also threatens sea bird colonies and the Oilfant’s River estuary.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
mg.co.za | John Yeld
The government’s “exceedingly late” filing of answering affidavits in a court challenge to its management of the African Penguin has caused “incalculable prejudice” to the seabird species that has just been classified as “critically endangered”. The delay has been so severe that the court should impose costs on a punitive scale against state respondents – the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Dion George and two senior officials in his department – to indicate its displeasure.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
ewn.co.za | John Yeld
“Peace with nature” was the theme of the 16th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) that has drawn about 23,000 delegates from around the world to the South American city of Cali in Columbia this past fortnight. The conference comes at a time when the biosphere – that very thin layer at Earth’s surface that every living thing depends upon – is being altered and destroyed and biodiversity is being lost faster than at any time in human history.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
news24.com | John Yeld
Over 23 000 delegates attended the 16th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) in South America. There were intense discussions on implementing the agreed framework of 2022 to reverse the current "existential crisis" of climate change. South Africa is among the convention member nations which are on track to meet commitments under the convention to stem biodiversity loss. For more financial news, go to the News24 Business front page.
