Local manta ray expert encourages South Africa to celebrate first-ever World...
This Heritage Month, South Africans are encouraged to participate in a new global celebration on Thursday, 17 September – World Manta Day. KZN South...
The best formula for human health and the planet: mother’s milk
Breastfeeding has great benefits for infants and the practice can also help reduce stresses on the environment.
As if the global pandemic hasn’t given parents...
4750 Hectares of Old-Growth Ukrainian Forest Receive the Highest Level of...
Only natural monument status can guarantee all-encompassing protection for old-growth forests in Ukraine.
In 2018-2019, WWF-Ukraine initiated the establishment of 37 forest natural monuments with...
Putting Science Back Into The Nuclear Debate
As someone that has spent her entire career defending evidence-based science, I am dismayed that too often the scientific facts around the health effects...
WWF, BUND and Deutscher Naturschutzring Call for a Stop to the...
The canal would mean the end of these last large and still relatively near-natural river and floodplain landscapes.
The planned Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal has met with...
Free access to CapeNature reserves in September
In celebration of Tourism Month, CapeNature will allow free access to selected reserves in the Western Cape for a full week between 16 and...
the planet’s wildlife has declined ‘catastrophically’
Wildlife populations worldwide have declined at a “staggering” rate by 68% in just a half century, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.
In...
Some 630,000 Europeans die from various forms of pollution each year
“There is a clear link between the state of the environment and the health of our population,” an expert says.
Air pollution, both indoors and...
Cryo success at Queensland delivers 1st ‘frozen’ avocado tree
“I suppose you could say they are space-age avocados,” says Dr. Neena Mitter.
It’s taken more than 40 years, but cryopreservation research at the University...
WWF’s Living Planet Report Reveals Average Two-thirds Decline in Wildlife Populations...
WWF is calling for urgent action to reverse the trend by 2030 by ending the destruction of natural habitats and reforming our food system.
2020...
People are a ‘far greater threat’ to endangered mammals than the...
“Human population size is able to predict past extinctions with 96% accuracy,” the experts argue.
Many of the 5,700 mammalian species around the planet are...
The asphalt on roads is driving air pollution
If we wanted to pinpoint the main source of air pollution on roads, we would point at the vehicles. But there is another source...
