About 40% of Hartbeespoort Dam is currently covered by hyacinth. However, the Centre for Biological Control (CBC) said the plants started to show distress due to the Megamellus bugs.

Magalies Water said this week it acknowledged the high hyacinth coverage on Hartbeespoort Dam and that the manual removal of the invasive plant had continued during the festive season.

Cycads in Hartbeespoort are in danger of being destroyed by the Leopard moth which has made its appearance again recently.

Kerri Wolter, founder of VulPro vulture rehabilitation centre in Hartbeespoort received the coveted Women in Conservation Award from SANParks for her protection and passion for the vultures in Africa.

The ongoing rain poses serious risks to vultures and birds of prey, including soaked feathers, nest destruction, and hypothermia.

The NSRI has issued a stern warning to boaters to be extremely careful when venturing onto Hartbeespoort Dam this festive season.

Over 20 sewer pump stations in Hartbeespoort and Brits are to be refurbished with work scheduled to start in November.

The Centre of Biological Control (CBC) of Rhodes University said this week hyacinth cover on the Hartbeespoort Dam is an estimated 15%.

A walk to pick up his children at school turned into an exciting discovery of a new dung beetle species for Hartbeespoort resident and entomologist Christian Deschodt (50).

The Madibeng Municipality has not settled its arrears account with the City of Tshwane in full and as a result, all of Hartbeespoort’s sewage has been streaming into the Hartbeespoort Dam for almost two weeks.

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) on Saturday established a committee that will look at state land use around Hartbeespoort Dam.

As some parts of South Africa endure a severe heatwave and drought, our wildlife, particularly vultures, faces immense challenges.

The community joined hands again last weekend, continuing to clean up the Hartbeespoort Dam shore and other areas.

All of Hartbeespoort's sewage has been streaming into the Hartbeespoort Dam for the past two days after the City of Tshwane disconnected the electricity supply to the Rietfontein wastewater treatment plant because Madibeng Municipality failed to pay its arrears account of R2.5 million.

Residents, businesses, and other stakeholders in the Hartbeespoort Dam remediation project joined forces last weekend to clean up the dam shore while the water was low.

"As elkeen voor sy eie deur skoonmaak, sal Hartbeespoort baie beter lyk!"

Sewage has once again flooded the premises of the Meerhof School for disabled learners.

A group of Majakaneng residents near Brits have made remarkable strides in conserving the area's natural beauty by looking after the Magaliesberg mountain range in the Majakaneng area.

The community in Kalkheuwel and Leeuwenkloof has been rallying together to feed wildlife after a devastating veld fire that swept through the valley two weeks ago.

The latest updated version 5 of Birds of the Magaliesberg Biosphere has just been released.

The body of a well-known conservationist was discovered in her home in Hartbeespoort on 20 September.

The fight between the Megamelus scutellaris and hyacinth is on! Over 60 000 Megamelus scutellaris bugs have been released on the hyacinth on the Hartbeespoort Dam since the end of August and are happily chomping away at the new seedlings.

Two applications for prospecting gold ore in Skeerpoort have been lodged. The areas concerned in the two applications seem to cover the whole of Skeerpoort

The major sewage spill at the Ifafi shore has stopped but the Madibeng Municipality keeps mum about cleanup operations and rehabilitation work that needs to be done on the site.

The Hartbeespoort Marine Law Enforcement Unit issued a strict warning that no boating is allowed on the Hartbeespoort Dam after dark.

Kerri Wolter, the founder of VulPro, a vulture conservation organisation in Hartbeespoort, has been nominated for the 2025 Indianapolis Prize, also referred to as the “Nobel Prize” for animal conservation.

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Magaliesberg Biosphere, which will be held on 5 October at Toppieshoek Campsite in Broederstroom.

A group effort by the Serondela pride in Botswana proved too much for an exhausted giraffe.

It was discovered that years of continuous raw sewage spillage on the shore into the Hartbeespoort Dam had caused a compacted sewage bank stretching over 100 metres.

A Brits resident has been engaged in a legal battle with the Madibeng municipality for the past six years to get them to stop municipal sewage pollution on his property, and despite court orders ...