Hybrids will save the world
Yves Vanderhaeghen
Dr Camille Parmesan is a climate change researcher who knows what it feels like to have one’s habitat wither.
Dr Camille Parmesan is a climate change researcher who knows what it feels like to have one’s habitat wither.
His name’s Bond, William Bond, and he says it’s time to put fire to the veld. To save it.
Keep an eye on the lions; watch where the elephants are, where the people are; track the poachers; count the nesting vultures.
That’s a tall order far on the veld, or deep in a vast nature reserve, where constraints of distance, cost, connectivity and a shortage of hands make conservation a thorny task at the best of times.
What’s the big deal about nature? Experts say that if people can just hear it, feel it, live it, the answer would be obvious, and youngsters, in whose hands the future of nature rests, will get the message quickly.
There’s little as rare as a rere’s egg on Madagascar. So when Chris Ransom, the Director of Field Programmes at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, announces that they’ve had a few eggs hatch it’s huge news. “We got quite excited,” he says. “We haven’t managed to breed them at our Ampijoroa breeding facility since 2017, but this year we managed. That was a real achievement”.
OGRC funds researchers, including several young post-grad students who are in the process of making their mark. The Young Voices series gives short profiles of students and the work they are doing in the field.
OGRC funds researchers, including several young post-grad students who are in the process of making their mark. The Young Voices series gives short profiles of students and the work they are doing in the field.
How can South Africa bring biodiversity conservation and the economy together? B Meyer explains the objectives of the proposed National Biodiversity Economy Strategy.
In the midst of political alliances with coal lobbyists, environmentalists are urging strategic voting and active citizenship to address the deepening climate crisis and stave off the collapse of natural systems.
