Posts From fredkockott
System failure: sewage spill shuts Durban beaches
Bathing has been banned in South Africa’s surf city, writes Fred Kockott. This report was updated on 11 May.
Yes Minister? What Environmental Affairs told Roving Reporters
Roving Reporters sent Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa a list of questions about her department’s apparent tardiness in expanding South Africa’s Marine Protected Areas.
Scientists up demands for government to protect oceans
A group of young marine scientists are questioning why government is stalling on declaring a network of Marine Protection Areas (MPAs). Fred Kockott reports
Lion bone trade in spotlight
Lawmakers will be giving lion breeding a lookover, writes Fred Kockott.
African nature tops the agenda in the run-up to Durban film feast
FOUR emerging southern African filmmakers attending this week’s Nature, Environment and Wildlife Filmmakers (NEWF) Congress in Durban will be awarded R50,000 each to produce an environmental or wildlife documentary of
Oceans Without Limits expedition
Tracking impact plastic pollution around islands of the West Indian Ocean After twenty-one years of calling the Indian Ocean his “office”, Cape Town’s Gert Muller is about to embark on
Salt water flows through her veins
Salt water flows through Nikki Chapman’s veins, so the the Ocean Stewards programme is the perfect home for Nikki Chapman, write Myrtle Ryan and Bukeka Silekwa.
