What began with one dying puppy on a doorstep has grown into one of the East Rand’s most dedicated grassroots rescues. Today, Recycling for Animal Welfare (RAW) is asking for support to keep their lifesaving work going — and to honour the brave little dog who started it all.
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‘MADSWIMMER’ WORLD RECORD ICY SWIM SPEAKS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Pictured above: Madswimmer Founder Jean Craven waves the SA flag high CAPE TOWN - "The Sky is the Limit" Madswimmer Team triumphantly returned to a camp in Kagkot in the Himalayas on Sunday afternoon, the 12 of May, marking their reconnection with civilization and...
FEEL GOOD| Environmental Activist (11) to protect seabirds from menacing mice this Christmas
Romario Valentine, an 11-year-old eco-warrior from Umhlanga, Durban, has a deep-rooted passion to protect and preserve our planet. Echoing Dr Wangari Maathai’s mantra ‘To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope...
Conservationist’s dream of completing record-breaking open-water swim grinds to a halt
Sarah Ferguson, an ultra-distance swimmer from South Africa, has completed an incredible 516.49km of the 1 500km One Ocean Swim from her home town of Durban through to Cape Town. However, without further donations towards her plastic pollution awareness campaign,...
Earth-shaker, Romario, dedicates his 10th Birthday to help complete an aviary and plant 350 trees
Romario Valentine (9), a pint-size planet warrior and artist from Umhlanga, Durban, has dedicated the last 4 years of his young life to protecting our planet. Fully focused on his passions, namely bird and marine conservation, climate change, and deforestation,...
Shark lovers brave the Fish Hoek exclusion zone, swimming 13km for shark safety.
Bringing awareness to shark safety, Leigh (28) and a group of enthusiastic swimmers will dive into the award-winning Fish Hoek exclusion net on the 27th of March 2021.
Clean-up initiative rids Johannesburg of over 410 tonnes of waste as it gains momentum.
The SW Living Creatures Trust launched the Live Life Always project in November 2020, which has created job opportunities for 10 otherwise unemployed Diepsloot residents. They have taken to the streets of Johannesburg collecting over 27,835 bags of litter, which amounts to over 181 tonnes of waste.







