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In a world grappling with environmental crises, Africa must take the lead in addressing its environmental challenges.
Innovative business models for conservation will promote biodiversity and help stave off the climate crisis, says Jonathan Oppenheimer.
Climate change biologist Dr Shannon Conradie. Winner of the 2024 $150 000 JWO research grant.
Webinar calls for action to recognise indigenous knowledge as complementary to modern science.
Conservationists can no longer neglect community needs in the pursuit of biodiversity, says SANParks executive conservation manager, Howard Hendricks.
To truly protect our oceans, we must collaborate across borders and harmonise conflicting laws, says Dr Arthur Tuda, executive secretary of the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association.
The annual Oppenheimer Research Conference (ORC) has become a recognised leader in conservation for showcasing and discussing key issues impacting natural and environmental sciences, biodiversity management and sustainable development in Africa and beyond.
Jaqui Hiltermann navigates the range of topics presented at the upcoming 13th Oppenheimer Research Conference.
To find a solution in which that elephant, or lion or other wildlife, is always an asset, on either side of the boundary, is a task Professor Morgan Hauptfleisch, research director at the Namibia Nature Foundation (NNF) has set himself and his students.
Dr Kiiru is a towering figure in conservation, known in particular for her work in saving elephants and their habitats and promoting an easier co-existence with people who share their space. She is now the Executive Director of Mpala Research Centre in central Kenya, a former cattle ranch which encompasses 48 000 acres of semi-arid savannas and shrublands. Next month, she will be addressing the 13th Oppenheimer Research Conference in Midrand on the subject of “Transforming spaces of research”.
If you go down to the woods today, it may surprise you that they’ve withered, or disappeared. Nature’s vanishing act goes largely unnoticed, despite its dramatic scale. And as the animals and plants die along with it, so too does what conservation biologist Kevin Gaston calls our “personalised ecology”.
Edith’s Checkerspot butterfly Euphydryas editha. This unlikely champion of resilience is an unglamorous, unadventurous butterfly that normally travels less than a few hundred metres in its two-week life.