If you go walking in the wild, you might expect that what you're seeing is natural. All around you are trees, shrubs and grasses growing in their ...

Of his journey towards obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy qualification, University of Cape Town (UCT) PhD graduate Dr Kevin Musungu said, “Perseverance, intellectual curiosity, the unwavering support ...

Scientists are zeroing in on two little lakes in the Cape to figure out how to save them from climate change, or if they can’t, then if they could recover.

If we find that Sambar deer are not a threat to endangered fynbos and that they preferentially consume aliens (including invasive kikuyu grass) without spreading them, then they should be left alone.

Setting sail from Plymouth, UK, in August 2023, Oosterschelde, as part of the DARWIN200 mission, embarked on an extraordinary two-year planetary conservation mission, retracing Charles Darwin's ...

Spier Wine Farm, one of South Africa’s oldest and most celebrated working wine farms, has opened the doors to its newly ...

Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden's long-serving principal horticulturist co-authored what promises to become the standard reference on South African garden plants.

It's hoped these naturally occurring seed banks could be used to restore one of the country's most iconic plant ecosystems.

These seed banks are natural storage areas in the soil where certain plants preserve their seeds. Our research in the Cape Floristic Region discovered that fynbos seed banks that have survived ...