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High Court victory for the Critically Endangered African Penguin

Protecting our ecological infrastructure, especially wetlands, is critical for water security

Biodiversity Mainstreaming and the Maritime Sector

The new Biodiversity Bill – the good, the bad, and the baffling

We are hiring: attorney

New Minister dismisses Biodiversity Law Centre’s appeal against Karpowership Richards Bay environmental authorisation

Biodiversity Law Centre comments on draft Biodiversity Bill

South Africa is a mega-biodiverse nation – the GNU must act to protect that

We are looking for TWO new Non-executive Directors

New plan fails to provide roadmap for sustainable use of SA’s mega-biodiversity

Comments on Draft National Biodiversity Economy Strategy

Landmark litigation to protect the African Penguin from extinction

Fuelling controversy: Bunkering on the sidelines of Sona

Biodiversity Law Centre lodges appeal against Richards Bay Karpowership project – updated

Conservation of South Africa’s protected areas is tenuous as long as the law is weak

The Biodiversity Law Centre receives an Owl Award

Biodiversity Law Centre seeks clarity on Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife / Karpowership biodiversity offset agreement

The Biodiversity Law Centre comments on draft amendments to the EIA Regulations

Critical Verlorenvlei Estuary under threat of mining and death by a thousand cuts

New Tungsten Mine a threat to the Moutonshoek Protected Environment, and the Verlorenvlei Estuary

Executive Director Kate Handley discusses the Sixth Extinction at the Daily Maverick Gathering: Earth Edition

Can law and policy reform help to curb the Sixth Mass Extinction?

Biodiversity – whose business is it anyway?

Biodiversity Law Centre comments on Draft Marine Sector Plan

SA’s progress towards international biodiversity targets provide a glimmer of hope

We are hiring: Attorney

Biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, and business needs to care

Exclusion of Solar PV installations from obtaining Environmental Authorisation and Adoption of Screening Tool

Draft white paper on sustaining the country’s biodiversity is a bold step but lacks details

Ship-to-ship fuel bunkering must urgently be included as a Listed Activity under SA’s environmental law

The road to COP15 in Montreal: Nairobi conference fiddles while ecosystems burn