Leonie Joubert

Who is Leonie Joubert?

Leonie Joubert is a freelance science writer and also an author and journalist, with a special interest in climate change, biodiversity, natural history, agriculture, energy issues and wine. Joubert has a Masters in Science journalism from Stellenbosch University and a Bachelors of journalism and Media Studies from Rhodes University. She is an author of four books; Scorched, South Africa's changing climate, publisher Wits University Press; Boiling point, people in a changing climate, publisher Wits University Press; Invaded, the biological invasion of South Africa publisher Wits University Press and The Hungry Season, feeding South Africa's cities, publisher Picador Africa.

Her first book, Scorched: South Africa's Changing Climate, blends the facts of climate change "with humour, history, vivid descriptions of people" and delivers it with "an amazing personal sense of wonder". Her second book, Invaded, the biological invasion of South Africa's cities, documents the consequences of the introduction to alien species into South Africa. Her last book, The Hungry Season, feeding southern Africa's cities, is an exploration of hunger and malnutrition in southern Africa.