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Climate Change

COP30: South Africa calls for climate finance without debt burden

2 days

South Africa’s ‘blue gold’: Ocean economy set to fuel jobs and growth

Fishing

South Africa’s ‘blue gold’: Ocean economy set to fuel jobs and growth

3 days

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Circular Economy & Waste Management

South Africa unveils first net recycling hub at V&A Waterfront

13 Oct 2025

Government Asked to Step Up Ending Captive Breeding Implementation Process

Environment & Natural Resources

Government Asked to Step Up Ending Captive Breeding Implementation Process

Issued by FOUR PAWS 1 Dec 2022

South Africa Marks Progress in Animal Welfare

Environment & Natural Resources

South Africa Marks Progress in Animal Welfare

Issued by FOUR PAWS 21 May 2021

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Environment & Natural Resources

Vulnerable vultures: Govt calls on South Africans to protect "critically important" birds

6 Oct 2025

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Environment & Natural Resources

South Africa pushes for sustainable ocean economy at UN

23 Sep 2025

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Circular Economy & Waste Management

How South Africa’s waste reforms and renewable energy are driving job creation

22 Sep 2025

Robin van Wyk - Senior Associate and Head of Environmental Practice at LnP Beyond Legal

Environmental Law

Draft regulations reveal big changes for SA's high-emission businesses

Robin van Wyk 9 Sep 2025

Celebrating Arbor Month: Sappi’s commitment to indigenous forests

Agriculture

Celebrating Arbor Month: Sappi’s commitment to indigenous forests

Issued by Sappi 8 Sep 2025

SanParks Vision 2040 Indaba opens in Gqeberha with focus on inclusive conservation

Tourism

SanParks Vision 2040 Indaba opens in Gqeberha with focus on inclusive conservation

4 Sep 2025

Environment & Natural Resources

South Africa implements stricter rules on offshore ship transfers, raising fines to R2m

25 Aug 2025

Environment & Natural Resources

SANParks' new campaign aims to reinvigorate rhino population at Kruger

8 Aug 2025

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Nuclear Power

Controversial Cape nuclear power plant gets green light

8 Aug 2025

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Circular Economy & Waste Management

South Africa's ambitious plan to tackle plastic microbead pollution

7 Aug 2025

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Circular Economy & Waste Management

Circularity in the Cape: Wesgro launches CEO Guide

6 Aug 2025

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Climate Change

GCF grants $40m to Sanbi's Eco-Disaster Risk Reduction project

3 Jul 2025

Medical Research

How SA discovered anti-cancer compounds in its deep ocean

1 Jul 2025

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Environment & Natural Resources

Protecting penguins: New offshore regulations open for comment

1 Jul 2025

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Environment & Natural Resources

DFFE identifies 59 bankable biodiversity projects

30 Jun 2025

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Environment & Natural Resources

10 more black rhinos translocated from SA to Mozambique

20 Jun 2025

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Environment & Natural Resources

SA signs agreement to advance ocean protection

10 Jun 2025

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Environment & Natural Resources

Sustained pressure on SA rhino populations

5 May 2025

Source: © 123rf Robin van Wyk, head of LnP Beyond Legal’s Environmental Practice says limited exemptions granted to Eskom reflect a complex balancing act between environmental responsibility and energy security and gives some practical steps going forward

Energy

Eskom’s limited emissions exemptions: A complex balancing act, practical steps going forward

Robin van Wyk 11 Apr 2025

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Environment & Natural Resources

Measures to protect penguin populations now in place

25 Mar 2025

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Climate Change

SA to partake in Petersberg Climate Dialogue

24 Mar 2025

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Environment & Natural Resources

Rhino poaching continues to decrease

7 Mar 2025

Government addresses misinformation on abalone fishing

Fishing

Government addresses misinformation on abalone fishing

21 Feb 2025

Conservation groups want new “sweet spot” no-fishing zones around African Penguin breeding colonies, arguing current zones are inadequate to prevent the species’ extinction. Archive photo: John Yeld / GroundUp

Environment & Natural Resources

Major showdown in court over African Penguin’s future

John Yeld 17 Feb 2025

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Climate Change

Government publishes National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report

11 Feb 2025

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Environment & Natural Resources

Have your say on draft National Elephant Heritage Strategy

29 Jan 2025

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Climate Change

SA calls on US to reconsider withdrawal from Paris Agreement

24 Jan 2025

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Environment & Natural Resources

South Africa, GEF host international environmental action seminar

20 Jan 2025

African Penguins (photographed above at the Boulders penguin colony) are critically endangered. Photo: John Yeld/GroundUp

Environment & Natural Resources

Legal delays threaten survival of African Penguins, say conservation groups

John Yeld 12 Dec 2024

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Environmental Law

Court ruling a warning shot against illegal fishing

10 Dec 2024

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Environment & Natural Resources

Have your say on the draft Biodiversity Management Plan

28 Nov 2024

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Climate Change

SA welcomes $300bn commitment for climate finance

26 Nov 2024

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Climate Change

Carbon pricing poses threat to economies of developing countries

11 Oct 2024

Environment & Natural Resources

Plan for reshaping conservation revealed

30 Sep 2024

Source: © 123rf A new R300-million processing facility - a first-of-its-kind technology for Africa - will add an extra 15,000 tonnes per annum of food-grade recycled PET output capacity (Pictured: plastic bottles ready for recycling)

Circular Economy & Waste Management

First for Africa R300m PET recycling plant to add 15,000 tons capacity annually; critical for export-oriented industries

17 Sep 2024

African penguins, photographed here in Simon’s Town, could be extinct as soon as 2035, according to BirdLife South Africa and Sanccob (Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds). Photo: Dan Callister / GroundUp

Environment & Natural Resources

Surprise move in litigation over African Penguins

John Yeld 21 Aug 2024

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Fishing

Supreme Court ruling upholds drone fishing ban

18 Jul 2024

Source: @GovernmentZA/X. SA's continued finance minister, Enoch Godongwana.

Finance

Godongwana holds onto Finance Ministry in new Cabinet

Katja Hamilton 1 Jul 2024

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Environment & Natural Resources

Public comment sought on rhino management plan

20 Jun 2024

Source: © Global African Network The DFFE and DPWI have entered into a MOA on the preferential access for small-scale fisheries co-operatives to public works facilities

Fishing

DFFE and DPWI preferential access for small scale fisheries MOA

16 May 2024

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ESG & Sustainability

Sectoral emission targets: What it means for business

Garyn Rapson, Nonhlanhla Mnengi, Sabeeha Loonat & Sinalo Matubatuba 13 May 2024

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Environment & Natural Resources

Draft National Biodiversity Economy Strategy - public comment extension

22 Mar 2024

More than two million litres of sieved raw sewage is pumped out to sea off Camps Bay every day. This is one of three marine outfalls, the other two being at Greenpoint and Hout Bay. The City has commissioned a study to determine the costs of treating the sewage first, or piping it to existing wastewater treatment works or further out to sea. Photo: Steve Kretzmann / Groundup

Circular Economy & Waste Management

Cape Town’s ocean-bound sewage options unveiled

Steve Kretzmann 9 Feb 2024

At least 12 fishing companies are taking the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) minister to court over the commercial fishing rights allocation process. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Corporate & Commercial Law

Fishing companies take Creecy to court over quotas

Liezl Human 6 Feb 2024

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Environment & Natural Resources

Term of appointment of the EAPASA extended

5 Feb 2024