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Africa is sitting on the raw materials to power the world’s green revolution — cobalt, lithium, graphite, rare earths.

Africa must avoid ‘resource curse’ in green minerals boom – WWF South Africa

WWF-SA has called on the G20 to back fairer deal for Africa’s critical minerals

  • Sheree Bega
9 min read
The men were sentenced for poaching 303 rate specied found in the Northern and Western Cape. Photo: WWF

Illegal succulent trade is the Western Cape’s most prevalent wildlife crime

CapeNature says 650 species and more than 1.2 million harvested wild plants have been seized in the past four years

  • Sheree Bega
5 min read
Catchment: The White uMfolozi River flows through the Babanango Game Reserve. Photos: Angus Burns/WWF

Ambitious project to rewild a piece of paradise in KwaZulu-Natal

A conservation project has brought together biodiversity, habitat protection, cultural heritage and community conservation

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
Photo by Julian Hahne

Meet the real rhino whisperers protecting black rhinos in KwaZulu-Natal

The WWF’s Black Rhino Range Expansion Project has established 17 new populations

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
Photo: Laura Lezza/Getty Images

Banning and phasing out 10 problem plastics in SA will boost the economy

New WWF South Africa research comes on the eve of the next round of negotiations on global plastic treaty

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read