The review article by Cherryl Walker, Sue Milton, Tim O’Connor, Judy Maguire and Richard Dean, ‘Drivers and trajectories of social and ecological change in the Karoo, South Africa’, has received an award for best article for 2018 in the African Journal of Range & Forage Science; this was the lead article in the journal’s ‘Karoo Special Issue’ on Trajectories of Change in the Anthropocene (vol 35, 3&4, 2018), edited by Joh Henschel, Tim Hoffman and Cherryl Walker.