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WWF’s Living Planet Award 2024 winners announced
WWF’s Living Planet Award 2024 winners announced

Two activist groups, who successfully halted seismic testing off the Wild Coast, and a well-known philanthropist couple are commended for their ...

08 Nov 2024
Bringing Cape mountain zebras back to Zebraskop
Bringing Cape mountain zebras back to Zebraskop

A newly acquired piece of land is playing a key role in ensuring the genetic health of Cape mountain zebras.

31 Oct 2024
KwaZulu-Natal is a nature reserve richer
KwaZulu-Natal is a nature reserve richer

The recent declaration of the UmPhafa Private Nature Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal is evidence that protected area expansion in the province is moving ...

17 Oct 2024
The Living Planet Index reveals a planet in peril
The Living Planet Index reveals a planet in peril

We must ‘think, act, collaborate and marshal resources at exponentially different scales’ if we are to reverse this trend.

10 Oct 2024
Dehorning yields results
Dehorning yields results

Dehorning brings about an 80% drop in poaching in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, but criminal syndicates continue to look for weak spots.

18 Sep 2024
A tribute to Pravin Gordhan
A tribute to Pravin Gordhan

WWF South Africa is saddened to learn of the passing of former Minister Pravin Gordhan.

13 Sep 2024
New WWF greenhouse in the Richtersveld is a gene bank for rare plants
New WWF greenhouse in the Richtersveld is a gene bank for rare plants

At the recent launch of the new Richtersveld Desert Botanical Garden, a very special greenhouse was also unveiled.

13 Sep 2024
Great Food Puzzle unpacks how to reduce impact of food production on nature
Great Food Puzzle unpacks how to reduce impact of food production on nature

WWF releases a resource that identifies the highest-impact food systems solutions in countries around the world.

12 Sep 2024
Cape Town leads the national pack in the One Planet City Challenge
Cape Town leads the national pack in the One Planet City Challenge

The City of Cape Town has been selected as the national winner of WWF’s One Planet City Challenge (OPCC) 2024.

22 Aug 2024
Unique clivia species under threat
Unique clivia species under threat

The upsurge in poaching of South Africa’s flora has taken a new twist.

15 Aug 2024
Two Mpumalanga land reform communities achieve protected environment status
Two Mpumalanga land reform communities achieve protected environment status

Land belonging to two land reform communities near Wakkerstroom in Mpumalanga have been declared protected environments.

14 Aug 2024
Celebrating a decade of conservation in the Northern Cape
Celebrating a decade of conservation in the Northern Cape

Over the past 10 years, the Northern Cape Land Project has enabled the declaration of five new nature reserves and one new protected environment with ...

14 Aug 2024