How healthy is the Limpopo River?
R4,5million Oppenheimer grant aims to find out.
People – nature relationships
If anyone should be complaining about the Expropriation Act, it’s government, argues Bulelwa Mabasa, Director and Head of the Land Reform practice at Werksmans Attorneys
Researchers challenge the feasibility of implementing early dry season fires as a one-size-fits-all fire management strategy for African conservation areas.
Conservation is often a hard sell. However, the business of conservation has a heft that appeals to both governments and people looking for pathways out of poverty in Africa.
Conservationists can no longer neglect community needs in the pursuit of biodiversity, says SANParks executive conservation manager, Howard Hendricks.
Migratory humpback whales remind us that in the ocean, national borders are merely lines on a map. To truly protect our oceans, we must collaborate across borders and harmonise conflicting laws, says Dr Arthur Tuda, executive secretary of the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association. Photo: Ken Finlay courtesy Wild Oceans
13th Oppenheimer Research Conference, 9th to 11th October 2024, in Midrand, entitled,
“Science Beyond Boundaries”
Duncan MacFadyen and Rendani Nenguda
Jaqui Hiltermann navigates the range of topics presented at the upcoming 13th Oppenheimer Research Conference.
An elephant moves across a boundary. On one side, in Etosha National Park for example, it’s an asset. But then, as it steps over what may sometimes be an imaginary boundary, it’s a cost.
Dr Winnie Kiiru doesn’t go so far as to say that researchers from Europe or America are killing Africans. But if scientists asked the right questions, or stretched their focus a bit, lives could perhaps be saved, she argues.