Month: May 2005

Launched recently by a group of stakeholders at the Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve, the Environmental Learning Forum (ELF) is a network of organisations and individuals, working collaboratively towards relevant, high quality environmental education and training. It will provide an interface between providers, employers, learners and the relevant Seta’s, which will lead to the development and implementation of locally relevant, contextualised learning programmes.

Providers will have access to shared resources, ideas and case studies that will help them meet accreditation requirements.

Founding members of Elf include the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa, Rhodes University Environment and Sustainability Unit, Environmental Justice Networking Forum, the Department of Environment Affairs and Tourism, Earth Life Africa, Heinrich Boell Stiftung, the South African NGO Coalition, KZN Department of Agriculture and Environment Affairs, Zero Waste Institute of South Africa, the Green Network and SADC Regional Environmental Education Centre.

For more information, please contact Jonathon Wigley at WESSA on tel. (033) 330-3931 or email jj@wessa.co.za

In what has been described as a ‘major coup for conservation’, a pack of 15 Wild Dog has been released into the Mkuze Game Reserve – an area from which this species disappeared 75 years ago.

The reintroduction programme was a combined effort by the Wetlands Park authority, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, the Endangered Wildlife Society and the Smithsonian Institute’s National Zoological Park. The African Wild Dog faces extinction in the wild in South Africa, as a result of habitat destruction, persecution and competition with larger carnivores