Not sure what to make for lunch or dinner? Why not try a fried grasshopper or some dried mopane worms - in doing so, you’ll join the approximately 2.5 billion people around the world who eat these and other nutritious insects. Martin Potgieter and Bronwyn Egan explain why insects are a good food choice, and offer some recipe ideas. Olaf Weyl, meanwhile, sounds the alarm about the many fish species that are unique to Lake Malawi and are under threat.
Fritz Kleinschroth and Matthew McCartney weigh up the pros and cons of dams that use “environmental flows” to mimic rivers in flood. And Daniel J Ingram suggests how Africa’s pangolins can be
saved from poachers.
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Martin Potgieter, University of Limpopo; Bronwyn Egan, University of Limpopo
Because insects are an affordable and local food source rich in protein, they can be used as a meat replacement.
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Olaf Weyl, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
Lake Malawi is considered a biodiversity treasure because almost all its species occurs nowhere else on the planet.
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Matthew McCartney, CGIAR System Organization; Fritz Kleinschroth, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
There are benefits and downsides to damming rivers.
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Daniel J Ingram, UCL
Pangolins are one of the most trafficked wild mammals in the world.
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Ebola
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Shirin Ashraf, University of Glasgow; Arthur Wickenhagen, University of Glasgow
Without the current experimental vaccine the Ebola outbreak in the DRC has the potential to spiral out of control.
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Jacqueline Weyer, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
The new Ebola vaccine is yet to be licensed but evidence shows that it protects against the strain of the virus.
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Energy
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Robert Scholes, University of the Witwatersrand; Rod Crompton, University of the Witwatersrand
It's too soon for South Africa to start counting its chickens over the recent offshore gas find by global energy giant Total.
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Rod Crompton, University of the Witwatersrand
There's no easy way for Eskom to claw its way out of the crisis it's in.
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