Don Pinnock

A major survey of Angola's remote Lisima plateau has uncovered species unknown to science, including new dragonflies, grasshoppers, moths and

Cape Town’s Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens still look magnificent, but plant experts warn that they are being hollowed out by bureaucracy, lost expertise, failing systems and the collapse of …

Cape Town's Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens still look magnificent, but plant experts warn that they are being hollowed out by bureaucracy, lost

The plants were stolen from the wild, rescued by the state, then delivered into another kind of danger. Inside Kirstenbosch’s greenhouses, South Africa’s plant-poaching crisis has become a grim questi…

The plants were stolen from the wild, rescued by the state, then delivered into another kind of danger.

This series on the gardens has had, within 48 hours, nearly 80,000 readers, and provoked an unprecedented number of written comments.

DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis has asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to move Willie Aucamp from the environment to the agriculture portfolio, replacing John Steenhuisen in a Cabinet reshuffle that could d…

Not all islands are surrounded by water. Some are ringed by wheat fields, highways, fences, suburbs and municipal boundaries. For the creatures trapped inside them, survival depends on connection.…

South Africa’s elephant strategy rightly celebrates heritage, culture and coexistence. But it’s proposals for adaptive management and flexibility could threaten what protection elephants actually rece…

Not all islands are surrounded by water. Some are ringed by wheat fields, highways, fences, suburbs and municipal boundaries. For the creatures trapped inside them, survival depends on connection.