Being Green - 11 Oct 24 _ Endangered biodiversity on the Cape Flats

Delegates from almost 200 nations are attending this year’s United Nations climate conference which is widely being described as the "climate finance COP". The main task for countries is to broker a deal that ensures up to trillions of dollars in financing for climate projects in poorer states around the…

Climate activists have described Donald Trump’s victory in the United States presidential elections as a major blow to global climate action. The results were announced just days ahead of the crucial COP29 conference which gets underway in Azerbaijan on 11 November. In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook…

It is just a few days before the United States elections. With Democrat candidate Kamala Harris pretty much neck-and-neck with the Republican’s Donald Trump, the outcome could go either way. But what impact will it have on the global fight against climate change? Harris describes global warming an “existential threat”…

The World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF’s) latest Living Planet Index shows that the average size of monitored wildlife populations has declined by 73 per cent in the 50 years from 1970 to 2020. A decline in wildlife populations is like an early warning system for the loss of healthy…

Cape Nature says the illegal trade in succulent plants is the most pervasive wildlife crime in the Western Cape, pushing many unique species to the brink of extinction. In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Leon Muller, a conservation manager for Cape Nature in the West…