Kruger to Canyons Biosphere

An Unseen Waste Crisis, and the Community-led Solutions Taking Shape

Across many rural parts of South Africa, an often overlooked but growing environmental and public health crisis is brewing, requiring urgent attention. It is a crisis shaped by everyday necessities, limited services and difficult choices, and it centres on the disposal of disposable nappies and sanitary products, known collectively as Absorbent Hygiene Products, or AHPs.

6 February 2026 No Comments

Editors Desk

From the Editor

This month has Valentines Day – but it has always fascinated me as to where did it originate and why?
Valentine’s Day is now synonymous with roses, chocolates and candlelit dinners. But it has roots far less polished – and far more intriguing.

3 February 2026 No Comments

Headlines

When the Heavens Opened and the Rivers Rose

Hoedspruit has always lived in a delicate balance with water. The rivers that sustain our farms, wildlife and livelihoods can, in a heartbeat, become forces of destruction. Over the past two weeks, that balance tipped violently.

31 January 2026 No Comments

Kruger to Canyons Biosphere

Phalaubeni’s new chapter begins: Rewriting their narrative from conflict to conservation champions

On 8 November 2025, the community of Phalaubeni in Limpopo marked a milestone many thought impossible just a few years ago: the official launch of its community-led Eco-Tourism Office and newly established hiking trails. But the true story is not about buildings or trails – it is about a profound shift in identity and mindset.

20 January 2026 No Comments

Spotlight Features

Eden – Soul of Africa

There are books about Africa… and then there are books that take you there. Eden – Soul of Africa, the new work by photographer and storyteller Armand Grobler, falls squarely into the second category.

8 January 2026 No Comments

Nature & Conservation

A Year That Shapes a Lifetime: EcoTraining’s Professional Field Guide Course

For young South Africans standing at the threshold of adulthood, the choice of what to do after matric can feel overwhelming. Some will step directly into university pathways; others sense that their future lies not in lecture halls, but in landscapes, among wildlife, weather, and the rhythms of the natural world. For those seeking a purposeful gap year or a launchpad into eco-tourism and conservation, EcoTraining’s 1-Year Professional Field Guide Course offers an extraordinary alternative.

5 January 2026 No Comments

Headlines

Energy vs. Ecosystem: Must Eskom Destroy Limpopo’s Kruger Corridor to Keep the Lights On?

Eskom’s proposed transmission line in Limpopo illustrates the cruel paradox of South Africa’s energy dilemma: a coal-dependent grid already fuelling climate change is now being expanded in ways that further destroy biodiversity.

22 December 2025 No Comments

Community News

Two Amazing International Organisations Touching Sides: Rotary and Scouting – Building Future Leaders

When Rotarian and Adult Scouter Penelope Colly recently told me that, as part of Hoedspruit Rotary’s Youth Leadership Development programme, ten scouts from the Acornhoek Scout Group would be sponsored to attend a Koru Camp experience, it set off a flood of memories.

15 December 2025 No Comments

K2C team monitoring a controlled burn in the Upper Blyde Catchment[97]

Kruger to Canyons Biosphere

Biosphere Reserves at the Heart of Global Biodiversity Goals — and Why South Africa’s Support Matters

Earlier this month, the world marked the International Day of Biosphere Reserves (3rd November) – a day dedicated to celebrating the 748 UNESCO-designated regions that safeguard biodiversity, while supporting sustainable livelihoods across the planet.

10 December 2025 No Comments

Headlines

Secret Electricity Price Hikes in South Africa to be Curbed in a Game-Changing Court Ruling

A recent high court judgment could be a game changer for the setting of municipal electricity tariffs in South Africa. In late October 2025, the court ruled that the process used by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) to decide yearly electricity price hikes was unconstitutional because it stifled public participation and violated the right to fair administrative action.

28 November 2025 No Comments

conservation

An Unseen Waste Crisis, and the Community-led Solutions Taking Shape

From the Editor

When the Heavens Opened and the Rivers Rose

Phalaubeni’s new chapter begins: Rewriting their narrative from conflict to conservation champions

Eden – Soul of Africa

A Year That Shapes a Lifetime: EcoTraining’s Professional Field Guide Course

Energy vs. Ecosystem: Must Eskom Destroy Limpopo’s Kruger Corridor to Keep the Lights On?

Two Amazing International Organisations Touching Sides: Rotary and Scouting – Building Future Leaders

Biosphere Reserves at the Heart of Global Biodiversity Goals — and Why South Africa’s Support Matters

Secret Electricity Price Hikes in South Africa to be Curbed in a Game-Changing Court Ruling

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