The convicted smuggler clinging to an Okavango hunting deal
A San community in Botswana’s Okavango has ordered convicted South African smuggler Dawie Groenewald off its hunting concession. He’s ignoring the courts – and…
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When political power enters the hunting fields
A leaked recording, court orders and company records point to a high-stakes struggle over a lucrative Okavango hunting concession – and political meddling…
More and more tourists are flocking to Antarctica. Let’s stop it from being loved to death
Antarctica has become a popular tourist destination, drawing 125,000 people in 2023-24. But it comes with environmental costs…
The currency of conservation
How NGO BirdLife South Africa is building a financially resilient model for protecting biodiversity, and why it matters…
South Africa’s birds: The price of extinction
South Africa’s birds are disappearing, and it’s going to cost us – not just environmentally, but economically too…
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Why South Africa is so vulnerable to the Iran war
The Iranian oil shock is reversing South Africa’s modest recovery,…
Mark Mobius: The man who sold the world
With Mark Mobius’s death this week, the world has lost…
Africa has turned the screw on its gold miners. Just ask Gold Fields
Gold Fields is one of a number of mining companies…
Iran-US ceasefire in question
Tensions between the US and Iran are sharpening in the…
