South Africa, among the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases worldwide, plans to introduce its own price on carbon next year. South Africa was the host of   last year’s climate talks at Durban  that yielded the first international agreement to put a price on greenhouse gases to be worked out by 2015 and operational by 2020. MORE >>

I don’t think I’ve ever done a post on my home patch of Cape Town, South Africa. The little seaside village of Rooiels is famed for being a wonderful location to pick up some choice South African endemics but it is also one of the most beautiful spots in the Cape. And rightly so. But not all the time. MORE >>

The UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa, were supposed to end this past Friday night after nearly two weeks of negotiations. “This means the world is on track to a 4C temperature rise, a death sentence for Africa, small island states and the poor and vulnerable worldwide. We made it. EU’s strategy worked. MORE >>

Birdlife International’s South African Albatross Task Force was the first of six teams created worldwide to saving the albatross from the grassroots level up. With support from Prince Charles , and the Royal Society For The Protection of Birds (RSPB), Goren and his team helped reduce albatross mortality rates in South Africa by 85%. MORE >>

Green Prophet recently visited the Hoedspruit Endangered Species center in South Africa to get a better sense of conservation initiatives aimed at restoring the cheetah’s dwindling population.  . Nadia, a South African guide who gave us a tour of the facilities over the weekend, described how female cheetahs choose their mates. MORE >>