Heather Dugmore
Heather Dugmore2021-01-05T06:42:55+00:00
  • We can create a different future

    “We are close to the edge of social disaster and destroying our planet, but it doesn’t need to be this way. We can create a different future.” These are the words of biodiversity and global change scientist Dr Phoebe Barnard (MSc 1990) who is the co-founder and former CEO of the USA-based Stable Planet Alliance [...]

  • Greener options for more dignified South African housing

    Millions of people are still awaiting their government-funded homes, and developing affordable, sustainable, dignified housing in South Africa remains an unrelenting need. Addressing this is a highly innovative collaboration between the Cape Town-based company nonCrete; the Institute of Technology in Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland; and the Council for Scientific and Industrial research (CSIR). They [...]

  • Looking at Cannabis Use Disorders in Africa

    Amid the push for cannabis legalisation globally and the escalating drug use crisis in Africa, second year PhD student in the Department of Human Physiology at Nelson Mandela University, Musa Aminu, is pursuing critical research and awareness-raising about cannabis use disorders (CUD).

1807, 2024

Boosting SA’s shortage of statisticians, mathematicians and physicists

By |July 18th, 2024|Categories: Features|Comments Off on Boosting SA’s shortage of statisticians, mathematicians and physicists

South Africa has a huge shortage of postgraduate statisticians, mathematicians and physicists. As a result, our universities do not have [...]

210, 2023

Southern Right whale mothers dropped 23% in body weight

By |October 2nd, 2023|Categories: Features|Comments Off on Southern Right whale mothers dropped 23% in body weight

From June to October the southern right whales give birth and nurse their calves in protected bays along South Africa’s southern Cape coast. The first aerial survey for 2023 on 28 August revealed 556 mothers with calves (1,112 whales) between Hermanus and Witsand.

3001, 2023

Free maths and science tutoring for all Grade 11 & 12 learners – Join now!

By |January 30th, 2023|Categories: Features|Comments Off on Free maths and science tutoring for all Grade 11 & 12 learners – Join now!

Vuyani Chipunza never expected to become a maths and science celebrity, but these days he is stopped in the streets [...]

2012, 2022

Criminal to have food insecurity when govt policy can solve it

By |December 20th, 2022|Categories: Features|Comments Off on Criminal to have food insecurity when govt policy can solve it

‘We are confident that we can help to solve South Africa’s food insecurity crisis through our national FoodBanking model, but [...]

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Largest ever Southern Ocean seabird and marine mammal tracking project calls for urgent conservation areas

By |March 1st, 2022|Features|

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About Heather Dugmore

Heather Dugmore was born and raised in Johannesburg. She has a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Rhodes University, South Africa. She operates between her base in the Eastern Cape and her office in Johannesburg. Her writing reflects the diversity of her experience: from humour to environmental conservation to business to academic research.

Heather contributes to leading newspapers, magazines, universities and corporates. She has produced, managed and edited content in all its multimedia forms – including books, features, photographs, websites, magazines, publications, reports, newsletters and brochures.

She is the author of several books including:

  • Big Cats of Mala Mala, a large-format coffee table book with photographs by Roger and Pat de la Harpe, which narrates a year of living with the big cats and an exploration of the lion, leopard and cheetah in African mythology.
  • Muthi & Myths from the African Bush explores indigenous medicinal plants and cultural knowledge systems in Africa through the storytelling medium.
  • Shamwari: Soul of the Earth explores conservation entrepreneurialism, environmental sustainability and the role of wild places in the survival of our planet.
  • The WWF-Nedbank Green Trust’s 25th Anniversary Book. This book documents the wide range of projects, from terrestrial and marine conservation to national policy and climate change initiatives that The WWF-Nedbank Green Trust has sponsored since its inception.
  • The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation – 30th Anniversary of Grantmaking in South Africa 1988 – 2018. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has funded numerous research projects in the Arts and Humanities at South African Universities to strengthen and promote human and environmental well-being in diverse, democratic societies.