Shamwari Game Reserve pioneered Big 5, malaria-free tourism in South Africa's Eastern Cape and led the trend for many other game reserves to transform overgrazed farms into thriving commercial game reserves. Legendary conservationist, the late Dr Ian Player said: The history of Shamwari is a remarkable story and without precedent in the modern history of [...]
Someone is misstating the truth. That someone is soon to be identified because they are breaking the law. This came to light at a volatile meeting in the Karoo town of Middelburg on Friday where petroleum giant Shell together with Golder, the environmental consultancy hired by Shell, presented their draft Environmental Management Programme (EMP) to [...]
Christiana could not get enough of Dario’s spekboom custard. She asked for more, which is not the done thing at Cube where the whole idea is that you get 20 starter-sized bites with unexpected flavour combinations and textures. […]
“Will you marry me, my darling, but without a ring?” “What planet are you living on, no ring!” “I’m living on the planet where if I slipped a gold band on your finger darling, every time I looked at it all I would see is 1.5 to 3 tons of rock being ripped from the [...]
Do not drink and try to say ‘Environmental Sustainability’. It is a mouthful at the best of times, but when in a state of inebriation, it is sure to land you in a tsunami of consonants and vowels. […]
On a cold winter’s day in May, Dougie Stern and Lukie Strydom met in the lapa at Dougie’s livestock farm between Graaff-Reinet and Middelburg. Over coffee and rusks they discussed the final itinerary of their two-week fact finding mission to the United States from 17 June – 4 July where they will intensively investigate shale [...]
The Latin people are clever. They reserve kissing on the mouth for lovers while friends and family get kissed on the cheeks. Three reasons why they pioneered the cheek-kissing approach all those centuries ago are: 1) Germ aversion (no spittle contact with the dubious element of relatives and friends) 2) It created the split-second opportunity [...]
“Congratulations to South Africa’s seafood consumers. By insisting on sustainably harvested fish and seafood you are significantly driving change.” This is the message from Dr Samantha Petersen, project manager of the Green Trust-supported Sustainable Fisheries Programme. Pressure from South African consumers on the seafood retail market over the past couple of years has helped to [...]
Nedbank’s Green Trust is funding a three-year project led by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) to create the first national map of our South Africa’s reef systems. The South African Reef Atlas is based on underwater photographs and gps co-ordinates submitted by ‘reef users’, notably divers, research organisations and government. It will significantly [...]
The government, women, coalminers, business…each sector of South African society needs to be involved right now if, as Africa’s highest emitter of carbon, South Africa is to transform to a low carbon economy. The Green Trust is doing something about it. The Green Trust is funding a project that is contributing to climate change policy [...]
