Climate change South Africa | ecological infrastructure | Extinction Risk | Extinction South Africa | Freshwater Collapse | The Green Guardian
Illegal wildlife trade, habitat loss and climate stress driving rapid biodiversity decline in SA
South Africa’s wildlife and natural ecosystems are facing an accelerating decline, with the country’s most comprehensive biodiversity stocktake warning of deepening ecological stress across almost every landscape and ocean region. The National Biodiversity Assessment 2025, released earlier this week, paints a stark picture of collapsing freshwater systems, intensifying illegal wildlife trade, surging extinction risks and…