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  • NEW STUDY: Welfare and survival of Africa’s arid mammals under threat of climate change

    Posted on February 24, 2021

    Dr Ned Snelling, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Physiology and Prof Leith Meyer, Director of the Centre for Veterinary Wildlife Studies, both from the Faculty of Veterinary Science have just published a new study on the welfare and survival of Africa’s arid-dwelling...

  • Sustainability mission: UP Theology and Religion Faculty conference discusses religion and climate change

    Posted on November 17, 2019

    The effects of global warming are being felt around the world – in fact, Africa may be bearing the brunt of climate change. As one of the most religious continents in the world, can churches play a significant role in the fight against climate change, especially in Africa?

  • UP Young Leader is a Global Changemaker

    Posted on May 19, 2017

    Courtney Gehle, a 22-year-old honours student in Environmental and Geographical Sciences at the University of Pretoria, has been selected by the European Commission from a global pool of candidates as one of their 16 Young Leaders for Development 2017.

  • Tornadoes - powerful, but uncommon in SA

    Posted on August 08, 2016

    Images and video clips that looked like scenes from the disaster movie Twister were all over social media a few weeks ago when unexpected tornadoes hit the Gauteng province.

  • Research aims to bring human agency back to the environmental crisis

    Posted on February 03, 2016

    UP's recently established African Observatory for Environmental Humanities promotes the notion of ‘earth keeping’ and positions itself at the intersection of indigenous value systems and modernity.

  • A world without polio

    Posted on June 19, 2015

    The University of Pretoria is one of the key partners aiding the international polio community in the development of specific tools to assist in the final push for the total eradication of the polio virus.

  • Saving our planet through research and scholarship

    Posted on June 10, 2015

    The various faculties at UP are making waves in their efforts in the field of conservation and are committed to promoting practices that make more sustainable use of the Earth’s natural resources.

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