Wetlands are superheroes: expert sets out how they protect people and places
In the past, wetlands were often seen as undesirable landscapes – waterlogged areas that were difficult to navigate, impossible to build on or farm, and a source of pests such as mosquitoes.
WWF Report: Water crisis threatens US$58 trillion in economic value, food security and sustainability
Water, the world’s most precious yet undervalued resource, lies at the heart of a mounting global crisis that threatens both human and planetary health, warns a new report, published today by WWF.
West Coast media trip: part 3 (Elandsbaai)
The sight of the sea greeted me in the morning, that great mirror of something forgotten within ourselves, about ourselves …
West Coast media trip: part 1 (setting the stage)
In the week when farmer association KwaNalu reported that there were thousands of oil and gas exploration applications to prospect on KwaZulu-Natal farmland (Farmer’s Weekly 23 Sept 2016), a group of journalists and team assembled by the WWF Nedbank Green Trust were looking at how the possibility of a tungsten mine spurred a group of farmers to have their area classified as a Protected Environment.
Wetlands
Rehabilitating wetlands, using wetlands on your farm, wise grazing, burning wetlands, planting crops in a wetland, using wetlands for tourism