Successful conservation in Africa hinges on the perceptions of communities bordering protected areas. It is therefore vital for protected area stakeholders to know the perceptions of neighbouring communities in order to ...

The Blue Flag award has become a prevalent tool for beach management worldwide. It applies environmental law and focuses on sustainable management of urban beaches. The literature reveals that Blue Flag beaches grant ...

Protected areas are often surrounded by impoverished communities. Biodiversity must be conserved while improving community well-being. Greater insight is required into what influences pro-conservation attitudes and ...

Biodiversity is rapidly declining worldwide because of the anthropogenic impacts on the environment regarding goods and services it delivers to humanity. Evidence suggests that we have entered the period of sixth mass ...

Calving difficulty is an economically important welfare-related trait in dairy cattle and, therefore, should be included in breeding objectives of South African Holstein dairy cattle. In South Africa, however, calving ...

Most growers prefer enclosed crop production over open space crop production to mitigate environmental conditions such as excessive rainfall, wind and hail. However, there is limited access to natural pollination agents ...

Over the past decade, a sense of responsibility and accountability has been created for the financial sector, which encourages stronger verification measures that would need to be exercised to reduce the possible liability ...

Poor water quality is a global concern as water contaminated with high levels of both physico-chemical parameters and heavy metals has serious effects on both human health and the environment. Surface water quality is ...

Water pollution and environmental degradation caused by acid mine drainage (AMD) is an ever more pronounced matter in environmental pollution. This is imputed to the nature and magnitude of its effects on the environment ...

This research project forms part of the Department of Nature Conservation, Unisa’s: Death in the long grass: The ecological implications of carcass decomposition in a southern African grassland project. Decomposing carcasses ...