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Animal Rebellion calls on government to prevent future crises

July 11, 2020 Leave a Comment

Today, the civil disobedience group Animal Rebellion have organised an online protest action commenting on the government’s contribution to the climate and ecological crises and calling on them to prevent future crises and end animal farming. Stating that the SA government has “blood on their hands” the animal and climate justice organisation referred to the government’s … [Read more...]

Ethical consumerism: shepherding back biodiversity

August 29, 2019 1 Comment

Climate change, over-population, pollution, plastic-filled seas. The threat to biodiversity, which ensures we have any future at all, is overwhelming. What can I do, I ask myself, to turn back the tide? Are my attempts at recycling, buying free range and organic food, signing Greenpeace petitions, boycotting products that contain palm oil and using public transport making any … [Read more...]

Agroecology: smallholder farmers mend a broken food system

November 6, 2018 1 Comment

Despite the adversity of a hot and often dry climate in the rural areas of northern KwaZulu-Natal, an innovative and well-informed network of farmers is regularly supplying fresh, nutritious food for their own households as well as surplus for sale at markets. They have shown that the land can take care of its people – if its people take care of their land. On her rocky, … [Read more...]

Are cows drinking Australia dry?

November 23, 2013 Leave a Comment

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Producers in Queensland’s north-west are facing an increasingly anxious wait for the wet season to arrive as water shortages compound an already dire feed situation. It is only two years since rivers were roaring and springs were overflowing in the Gulf in the wake of successive wet seasons, but producers have been left stunned by the rapid turnaround that has occurred … [Read more...]

2 More white rhinos poached in Brits

October 4, 2011 Leave a Comment

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The owner of the farm where two white rhinos were poached yesterday in Brits in the North West, says he has lost eight rhino this year alone. Neels van Rensburg who had 45 rhinos says he has now decided to quit the rhino farming business and plans to auction what's left of the animals on Saturday. 'I have been farming with rhinos since 1988 but I am going to sell them all … [Read more...]

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