Alarms are ringing – is the COVID-19 pandemic a wakeup call for businesses?
“Nature is sending us a message with the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing climate crisis”.
COVID-19 lockdown: A time to reflect on our impact on biodiversity
The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has brought to the forefront new challenges and, therefore, opportunities in our lifetime.
Risk, reputation and reporting: Does business have a biodiversity blind spot?
Often the link between biodiversity and business can be difficult to identify. On 18 February 2020, the EWT’s National Biodiversity and Business Network (NBBN) hosted their annual Indaba under the theme of risk and reputation.
Expanding our conservation footprint in the Soutpansberg
The EWT aims to safeguard the future of hundreds of threatened species through our local conservation activities, which will protect the unique biodiversity and landscapes, and support the development of sustainable livelihoods in the western Soutpansberg Mountains
Environmental Impact Assessments are not saving our wildlife and wild places
Biological diversity is a difficult thing to measure at a national scale, but regardless of how it is measured, South Africa is in the top ten most biodiverse countries in the world, and could possibly even be in the top three. We are privileged therefore, as a developing country, to be in a position to conserve our remaining intact habitat and associated biodiversity. If we strategically and carefully govern our development processes, we can do so while also achieving sustainable economic growth, development and natural capital/heritage.