Volunteering

Plastic can take up to 1 000 years to degrade.

Death by plastic

9 April 2013 | Hannelie Van As

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Plastic can take up to 1 000 years to degrade. Even if we stop using it now, it will still be around for at least another 12 generations. Makes you think, doesn’t it?

Get involved with Trees for Zambia 2013

14 February 2013 | Adel Groenewald

Greenpop, Cape Town’s coolest tree planting and environment organisation, is doing it again. They’re taking 5000 trees to Zambia to plant at schools, subsistence farms and in reforestation sites and you can help to make it happen.

An afternoon transfer to Main Camp on a Zimbabwean 'smile safari'

The smile safari

21 January 2013 | Dianne Tipping-Woods

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Exchanging smiles with the people you meet on your travels can be the catalyst that turns an average trip into an unforgettable one. This group of Spanish doctors took the idea of giving and receiving smiles to a literal extreme on their recent mobile dental safari through Zimbabwe.

Marine voluntourism requires little more than a love of the ocean and its animals.

More than just a beach holiday: Marine voluntourism

14 November 2012 | Adel Groenewald

Have you ever wanted to get more out of your holiday than just lazing on the beach? Marine voluntourism may be the answer.

Photographer Chase Jarvis working the angles

Breathtaking dolphin super-pod sighted off Cape Town

27 September 2012 | Evan Haussmann

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A rarely seen phenomenon captured on video: Dolphin Stampede!

Join SA Adventure on the Northward Bound Expedition to Zambia

18 August 2012 | Tim Skelton

Project Luangwa will be taking place from 15 December 2012 to 5 January 2013 and you are invited to join the expedition.

10 ways tree planting makes you happy

16 July 2012 | Sarah Isaacs

During my week at Greenpop’s Trees for Zambia reforestation and conservation education project in Livingstone I smiled solidly for seven days. Here are ten reasons why I think tree-planters are such a happy bunch.