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Michelle Nel has worked as a freelance environmental journalist, photographer and editor for more than 20 years. She is a member of Al Gore’s Climate Leadership Corps and was the first freelancer to win the SAB Environmentalist Journalist of the Year Award for print. She serves on the Linbro Park Environmental Monitoring Committee in Gauteng, which aims to turn a closed landfill site into a recycling and recreational area. She has helped numerous organisations with their communications strategies on issues ranging from people and parks to wetlands.
This story was produced in partnership with Pulitzer Center. Details of the land claim settlement for MalaMala, one of South Africa’s most exclusive game reserves, are unlikely…
Nozipho Mxakato-Diseko is working to advance the position of developing countries
When agricultural growth seasons change, and you are farming marginal land or for subsistence, you are most vulnerable, says Beaumont
‘Climate jobs’ are more secure, require more skills and are cleaner
Desmond D’Sa has rallied the community of Durban south in a fight for health
‘When we spend on natural resource protection, we are paying global bills’
Rhino Conservation Award – Winner: Endangered Wildlife Trust Rhino Project
Rhino Conservation Award – Runner-up: Wildlands Conservation Trust
Rhino Conservation Award – Runner-up: The Zululand Anti-Poaching Wing
Wildlands Conservation Trust is the runner-up in the Biodiversity Stewardship Award.
Wessa Rhino Initiative is the runner-up in the Rhino Rescue Award.
Project Rhino KZN wins the Rhino Rescue Award.
Wise Use of Wetlands Project by the Association for Water & Rural Development is the winner of the Biodiversity Stewardship Award.
Water Sense by Sasol wins the Water Management Award.
Negotiations for a new protocol to reduce carbon emissions have been slow but temperatures continue to rise.
Why was the plug pulled on Indalo Yethu?
Financial institutions can play a vital role in ensuring a better environment.
The article "Bestsellers give kinky sex a bad rap" (Friday, July 13 to 19) made my blood boil, writes Michelle Nel.
Founder Robert Baden-Powell inspired the scouting movement with the injunction to "leave this place a little better than we found it".
Greenpop’s greening campaigns include fun events, art and music. It plants trees on behalf of individuals who want to invest in a greener future.
