A restored wetland in Zimbabwe’s Hwange District is drawing global praise for its integrated approach to conservation, food security, and sustainable livelihoods. Delegates attending the 15th Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP15) gained first-hand appreciation of the Kasibo Wetland Project, where a two-hectare garden, orchard, aquaculture system, and weirs…
Land barons have illegally occupied more than 140 sites across Harare, prompting the city to turn to the courts in a bid to stop rampant and unregulated developments, parliament heard on Monday. City officials say the capital is experiencing a surge in illegal construction, including on ecologically sensitive wetlands and along roadways, with legal challenges…
BirdLife Zimbabwe is ramping up efforts to stem the rapid degradation of the country’s vital wetlands, threatened by urban sprawl, unsustainable development, as the nation prepares to host a major global conservation summit. The conservation organisation is leading the push with government, communities, local authorities, and schools to raise awareness and implement practical solutions aimed…
Global warming, and its effect on climate, is one the most pressing issues facing the world today. Despite much already having been written on the urgency with which we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions, pull carbon out of the air, and redesign our social-environmental systems towards new ways of doing business, most decision makers, from…
