South Africa’s vital wetlands are degrading faster than investment in their rehabilitation. As a result, they are facing ...

Tshwane continues to face challenges relocating illegal settlers from the environmentally sensitive Wolwespruit wetland in Pretoria.

For the first time in 20 years, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP15) returns to Africa, with its debut in Southern Africa, at Victoria ...

Swamplands and vegetation in the Greater Saint Lucia Wetlands Park in eastern South Africa are being battered by local communities dependent on the 260,000-hectare protected area to survive. “It ...

South Africa: Wetlands Do the Job of Expensive Technology, If We Let Them. Abu Shawka/Wikimedia Commons. The Rietvlei wetland in Cape Town. 27 October 2019. The Conversation Africa (Johannesburg) ...

Analysis - The Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa was established 94 years ago to protect the last 11 elephants in the Eastern Cape region. Since then, the reserve has expanded to 155,000 ...

South Africa's palmiet wetlands are in such a critical state that if urgent action is not taken "they may soon disappear", said research. Thursday, June 19, 2025 News ...

Wetlands are often seen as muddy, damp, insect ridden and smelly places. In South Africa in the 1970s, 50% of the country’s wetlands were drained and turned into commercial agricultural lands or ...

With South Africa facing pressing water security issues, there is an urgent need for wetlands to be rehabilitated and preserved, says SRK Consulting's principal hydrologist Dr Simon Lorentz ...

South Africa's wetlands play a key role in climate change mitigation and disaster risk reduction, writes Alanna Rebelo. Part of the answer to surviving climate change may be South Africa's wetlands ...

South Africa's palmiet wetlands are in such a critical state that if urgent action is not taken "they may soon disappear", said research. SA palmiet wetlands drying up fast, will be lost by 2065 ...