31 March 2023 - Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Ms Barbara Creecy, will launch the South African National Parks (SANParks) Vision 2040 on 4 April 2023. SANParks Vision 2040 aims to create Protected Areas and a protected area agency that is healthy, sustainable, and climate resilient; belong to, heal, and inspire all South Africans; reawakens and nurture national pride; are world-class in every aspect; and are prosperous, with tangible and intangible benefits flowing to stakeholders.
24 March 2023 - The vital relationship between trees and forests with health-related matters was highlighted during the observation of the International Day of Forests (IDF) today, 24 March 2023. In light of this, the DFFE has called upon South Africans to appreciate the contribution of forests in our daily lives and to ensure that we protect them from a multitude of threats.
23 March 2023 - I am pleased to address you at this second instalment of the Local Government Environment Indaba (LGEI) taking place under the theme: “Working Towards Local Environmental Sustainability.” This Local Government Environment Indaba also takes place in the same week as South Africans from all walks of life commemorated the Human Rights Day.
22 March 2023 - The Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Ms Maggie Sotyu, will lead the International Day of Forests (IDF) seminar at the Harold Porter Botanical Gardens in Betty's Bay, Overstrand Municipality, in the Western Cape on 23 March 2023. The Botanic Garden in Overstrand Local Municipality is viewed as one of the places with an array of medicinal plants from the Cape floral plants family.
21 March 2023 - South Africa welcomes the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Summary for Policy Makers and a longer synthesis report of the Sixth Assessment Cycle.“The report, released yesterday, brings together the work of leading global scientists over the past six years and clearly shows that more than a century of burning fossil fuels and unsustainable energy and land use worldwide, but in particular in developed countries, has led to global warming of 1.1°C since the start of the industrial revolution,” says the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Ms Barbara Creecy.
