South Africa's Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment is launching a monumental campaign to plant one million ...

Africa’s key to future food-nutrition security may depend on the untapped potential of indigenous fruit trees. Africa indigenous fruit trees offer major benefits. But they’re being ignored ...

Examples of indigenous South African trees include the acacia tree, African holly (Ilex mitis), the baobab, the mopane tree, and more. Exotic trees are trees that originate from a different region.

The Wildlands Conservation Trust was using a small bakkie for a project, headed by project manager Charmaine Veldman, for transporting young indigenous trees, so DCSA donated a 3-ton Canter 4x4.

More than two-thirds of South Africa’s 20,400 plant species are found nowhere else in the world, said Karen Esler, a distinguished professor of conservation at Stellenbosch University.

On Tuesday, 15 April 2025, South Africa joined the rest of the continent to celebrate Indigenous Tree Day (ITD), which is a growing African initiative dedicated to the conservation and sustainable ...

Western diets make up most of South Africa's food systems. This displaces indigenous crops and edible forest plants.The problems created Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT ...

Concerns about the impacts of invasive species is not new; it dates to the 19th century. The term was popularized in Charles Elton's 1958 book "The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants". However ...

The Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (PSHB), a tiny beetle with a big appetite for destruction, is threatening the country's indigenous trees and forests. Originating from south-east Asia, this beetle ...

Gardeners the world over dread the appearance of aphids on their plants. There are around 4,000 species of these sap-sucking insects and about 250 are pests that can wreak havoc on crops in a ...

Indigenous trees are trees that are native to an area. These trees are integral to the function of an area’s ecosystem, providing not only oxygen for humans and other animal species but also ...