Pretoria - The City of Johannesburg will use the two-day Joburg Waste Summit as a platform to present its new waste management strategy.

In a handover ceremony held at its Johannesburg head office on Wednesday, conservation-led experiential travel company &Beyond received a donation of ZAR 1.2 million towards the protection of rhino at its Phinda Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal.

CAN DO! Trekking for Trash’s social change adventurers have done it! The duo received a warm welcome at their Kosi Bay destination following seven months trekking across and cleaning South Africa’s shoreline.

Mozambique’s rhinoceros population was wiped out more than a century ago by big game hunters. Reconstituted several years ago, it has again been driven to extinction, or to the brink of extinction, by poachers seeking their horns for sale in Asia.

A biomass-to-energy plant is being built to convert sugar-cane waste into ‘green charcoal’, which will provide additional revenue for small-scale farmers in Nkomazi, Mpumalanga, says consulting engineering firm Aurecon project manager Jean Bouwer.

Pretoria – South Africa and Vietnam have signed an action plan to implement the Memorandum of Understanding on Biodiversity Conservation and Protection. Water and Environmental Affairs Deputy Minister Rejoice Mabudafhasi and Socialist Republic of Vietnam Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ha Cong Tuan, represented the two countries.

Pretoria – Police arrested two rhino poachers in Pafuri at the Kruger National Park at the weekend.

Johannesburg - Vehicle manufacturers in South Africa have welcomed the launch of the Electronic Vehicle Industry Road Map, which aims to introduce electric vehicles into the South African market.

Pretoria- The number of rhinos poached in South Africa since the start of the year has increased to 273 with the Kruger National Park bearing the brunt, says the Department of Environmental Affairs.

Pretoria – Government says there are no plans for load-shedding this winter, but officials have urged South Africans to save as much electricity as possible.

Johannesburg - South Africa is keen on bringing electric cars into the market and is putting in place a set of incentives for the local production of these vehicles locally thereby reducing the country’s carbon footprint and creating jobs.

Telecommunications group Vodacom on Thursday unveiled its latest initiative to minimise the environmental impact of its head office, in Midrand.