A Conversation article on Ars Technica by geographers and sustainability scientists reports that many South African Western Cape winemakers increasingly see conservation of soil, water, and wildlife habitat as essential to business success, not a competing use of land. The region, which produces about 90 percent of South Africa's wine and hosts the biodiverse Cape Floral Region, faces faster-than-average warming, drought, and erratic rainfall, and most vineyards participate in the Integrated Production of Wine certification system created in 1998.