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A report by WWF South Africa detailing efforts between 2020 and 2025 to secure water supply through community-public-private partnerships (CPPPs) and corporate funding in strategic water source areas.

This fact sheet by WWF South Africa describes the Boland Groot Winterhoek Strategic Water Source Areas (SWSA) Collective, a multistakeholder platform established in 2022 to secure critical water-rich catchments in the Western Cape. The Collective coordinates efforts to rehabilitate ecological infrastructure, manage invasive alien plants, and align governance between national and local levels to ensure water security for millions of residents and regional agriculture.

This briefing by WWF South Africa advocates for an ambitious, people-centred approach to South Africa's third National Biodiversity Strategic Action Plan (NBSAP) for 2025-2035, specifically targeting the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) goal of conserving 30% of land, waters, and seas.

This report details the findings of the Biodiversity Management Agreement (BMA) Tax Incentive Incubator, a project by the Sustainable Landscape Finance Coalition (including WWF-SA and Wilderness Foundation Africa). The incubator investigated how to unlock a dormant tax incentive under section 37C(1) of the Income Tax Act No. 58 of 1962 for the conservation management of species and habitats in South Africa. The investigation concluded that the necessary building blocks for the finance solution are present, leading to the launch of a pilot project targeting rhino and lion conservation between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022.

This policy brief by WWF South Africa examines the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus in rural South Africa, specifically the Eastern Cape. It advocates for a transdisciplinary, bottom-up governance approach that integrates local and indigenous knowledge to address systemic inequalities and resource insecurity.

This document outlines 'Impact Goal 1' of the WWF South Africa Strategy 2030, which aims to reshape land and seascapes by integrating people as primary custodians of nature. The strategy focuses on four priority geographic areas aligned with Mega Living Landscapes (MLLs) and Strategic Water Source Areas (SWSAs), utilizing four interlinked pathways: biodiversity stewardship, livelihood enhancement, economic transition, and financial mobilization.

This document outlines Impact Goal 3 of the WWF South Africa Strategy 2030, which focuses on mobilising new scales of finance to support people and nature. It identifies a significant global biodiversity finance gap and proposes three pathways: scaling up land and seascape finance opportunities, increasing private investment in bankable nature solutions, and improving financial inclusion for small, medium and micro-enterprises (SMMEs) and local community enterprises.

This fact sheet by WWF South Africa describes the Table Mountain Water Source Partnership, a multi-stakeholder initiative formed in 2020 to manage groundwater and enhance water security in Cape Town following a severe drought from 2017 to 2020.