Daily Maverick: When you drive from Mfolozi to Mtubatuba, you can smell the sadness in the air

When you drive from Mfolozi to Mtubatuba, you can smell the sadness

While the climate impacts of burning coal are well documented, a lesser-told story is the misery endured by communities forced to accommodate new coal mines as neighbours. Banks which finance these mines are complicit.

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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Guide in English and isiZulu

The South African affiliate of IAIA, IAIAsa, together with All Rise Attorneys for Climate and Environmental Justice recently launched a bilingual Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Guide in English and isiZulu. Funding for this innovative best practice tool was provided by IAIA and OSF-SA.

All too often, community members are left out of decision-making processes that directly impact their health and well-being and that of their environment. The isiZulu Environmental Impact Assessment guide aims to make EIA accessible to communities directly affected by proposed developments in their areas.

EIA Guide .pdf

isiZulu EIA Guide

EIA Guide – B_W.pdf

Daily Maverick: Oil and gas hunters target the last refuge of east Africa’s vanishing dugongs – by Tony Carnie

Oil hunters target the last refuge of east Africa’s vanishing dugongs

The global oil and gas survey company Searcher is gearing up to blast powerful sound waves into the Indian Ocean, directly adjacent to the last viable population of dugongs on Africa’s east coast.