The Governments of Denmark, Mexico and South Africa - hosting climate change talks COP15, COP16 and COP17, respectively- have decided to establish a Troika that will facilitate close cooperation on the ongoing United Nations climate change negotiations.

South Africa is hosting the Congress Of Parties (COP 17) next year while Mexico will welcome world leaders to its talks later this year.

Goosey Fernandes has moved one step closer to realising his dream of a sanctuary for big cats.

Yesterday Fernandes bought Apollo and Alice – together half a ton of tiger – from the Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve in Krugersdorp and transported them to his game farm near Groblersdal.

Nine people, including two veterinarians, were expected to appear in the Musina Magistrate's Court on Wednesday on charges related to rhino poaching.

The police on Monday pounced on the two veterinarians, who are said to be well-known in the town of Modimolle, and owned an animal clinic and a wildlife organisation involved in catching and transporting game.

Water and Environmental Minister Buyelwa Sonjica is concerned about the impact of climate change in the Northern Cape.

"This (climate change) is likely to have an effect on all South Africa's provinces but it is anticipated that the Western Cape and Northern Cape could be the most severely impacted. In particular, it is predicted that Northern Cape will get hotter and drier in the decades to come," the minister said at Northern Cape's Water Indaba on Thursday.

When a whale carcass was towed to Seal Island in False Bay, known as a spot where great white sharks hunt, one might have expected a feeding frenzy with the big predators fighting each other and ripping into whatever they could bite off.

Turns out this was not the case. According to Alison Kock, principal scientist of the Save Our Seas Shark Centre and Shark Spotting Programme, the sharks were highly selective in what part of the whale they ate, and showed very little aggression towards each other.

Goosey Fernandes has moved one step closer to realising his dream of a sanctuary for big cats.

Yesterday Fernandes bought Apollo and Alice – together half a ton of tiger – from the Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve in Krugersdorp and transported them to his game farm near Groblersdal.

From Monday to Friday next week, all South Africans can spend a day at one of the country's national parks without paying an entry fee as part of the Know Your National Parks campaign.

South African National Parks (SANParks) will allow locals with valid South African identity documents to enter any park managed by it completely free of charge, with the exception of Boulders in the Table Mountain National Park, and Tankwa Karoo and Namaqua national parks.

Ministers responsible for marine industries management and marine environment in South Africa, Namibia and Angola are to gather in Cape Town later this week for the 2nd Ministerial Conference of the Benguela Current Commission.

The ministers will among others, discuss progress made by the commission which was established in 2007 to promote the optimal and sustainable utilisation of the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME). This is the coastal area that stretches from Port Elizabeth to Northern Angola.

The Department of Water and Environmental Affairs has launched a publication that notes the progress South Africa has made around conserving its natural resources.

Deputy Minister Rejoice Mabudafhasi said the People and Parks Publication provides the reader with history of land issues endured in the country, to present day where South Africa is committed to protecting and upholding the rights of communities in the conservation of natural resources.

Progress in efforts to improve water quality as a response to challenges facing the global water sector will be in the spotlight when delegates meet for this year's World Water Week (WWW) in Sweden.

Water and Environmental Affairs Deputy Minister Rejoice Mabudafhasi will on Friday depart to Stockholm, where she will be representing South Africa.

KwaDukuza Municipality firefighters failed to pull a humpback whale's carcass off Boulders beach after battling with the massive sea creature the whole day on Tuesday.

By midday locals had come out in numbers to watch the giant mammal's remains perplex firefighters and other municipal employees who had been on the beach trying to shift it since 6am.

The National Sea Rescue Institute has warned beach-goers to be extremely vigilant after they had seen an increase in shark activity along the False Bay coastline.

This past week people at Fish Hoek and Muizenberg beaches have been asked to leave the water at different times following sharks being spotted close inshore.