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

Nature & Conservation

Wasps 101: nature’s Pest Control

Wasps in southern Africa span many families, from solitary hunters to social nest builders. They play a vital ecological role that extends far beyond their reputation for stinging. As highly effective predators, they naturally regulate populations of insects and other invertebrates. Many wasps also act as pollinators while visiting flowers for nectar, contributing to plant reproduction and biodiversity. Together, these functions make wasps essential to maintaining healthy and balanced ecosystems.

16 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

Community News

The Neighbour Hoed Opens — And Hoedspruit Comes Out to Play

If anyone doubted whether Hoedspruit needed a new place to gather, laugh, eat, sip, shop, mingle and generally let its hair down, the opening of The Neighbour Hoed at Zandspruit Boulevard settled it. The place launched with a bang – live music blaring, pizzas spinning out of the oven, drinks flowing under the old fig tree, and enough foot traffic to convince even the sceptics that Hoedspruit has a brand-new destination on its hands.

29 December 2025 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

Lifestyle

Greater Kruger Travel: From the Bush to the WorldMeet the Neighbours

In a town better known as the safari capital of the world – where khaki, camera straps and 4x4s rule the day – a different kind of travel venture has quietly rolled into town. Greater Kruger Travel is setting out to make global travel planning as personal, reliable and polished as the safaris that put Hoedspruit on the map.

24 November 2025 No Comments

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

Wasps 101: nature’s Pest Control

Eden – Soul of Africa

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

The Neighbour Hoed Opens — And Hoedspruit Comes Out to Play

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

Greater Kruger Travel: From the Bush to the WorldMeet the Neighbours

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