Wild Rescue

We can never forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. As go the oceans, so goes the planet. The pioneering French oceanographer and environmentalist Jacques Cousteau said that "The ocean is this great unifier. For man, it is the one great hope." After thousands of hours  deep-sea diving he also noted…

“The hunger for good things usually winds up as starvation," wrote the Nobel Prize-winning poet Czesław Miłosz, born in Lithuania during June 1911 - the conclusive years of the  Russian Empire. It’s the paradox of desire: the intense pursuit of our cravings often alienates us from what sustains us. For all of known history, few…

When biodiversity has a problem, humanity has a problem. Biodiversity is the living fabric of our planet. It underpins human well-being and its rapid decline threatens ecosystems and society alike. May 22 is the

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Sir David Attenborough, internationally beloved environmental and conservation advocate, marks his 100th birthday on the 8th of May this year. An iconic naturalist and the man who gave a cross-generational voice to wildlife cinema: we celebrate both his longevity and his storied career at this extraordinary milestone, with decades of profoundly shaping the public understanding…

HESSEQUA - From 24-27 April the annual

“The conservation of animals and plants is more important to human beings than we are to them. These forms of life are vital for our survival.”  - Laurens van der Post, University of Cape Town, 1982 lecture  GEORGE HERALD - 

FARMER'S REVIEW AFRICA - Africa is one of the most biodiverse continents and South Africa is home to the Cape Floral Kingdom -  by incredible margins being both the smallest and richest of the six floristic regions of the world with some of the most important national heritage assets literally rooted in the soil -…

Smaller sums can make big differences to little lives.  GOOD THINGS GUY - Garden Route, South Africa (11 April 2026) - This week Delilah the vervet monkey took a nervous trip to the 

When it comes to nature; rareness is our narrator in the story of change.  GEORGE HERALD - With species extinction accelerating and global biodiversity declining at unprecedented numbers in our history, the Western Cape is showing a promising trend-shift towards non-institutional conservation efforts led by individual landowners. It was recently reported widely that during the…