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FIRE IN THE FYNBOS – WHO LOOKS OUT FOR THE SNAKES?

-Rea Borcherds When driving towards Pringle Bay over the past few weeks, the consequences of the recent severe fire is plain and painful to see. What was once flowering fynbos up the hillsides of the Brodie Link, is now a sandy waste of scorched earth. While the fynbos itself recovers fairly rapidly after fire, and indeed benefits from fire - provided it is not too frequent - the creatures, large and small, that inhabited the fynbos do not recover as fast. Much attention has recently been drawn to the plight of baboons in the Western…
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SAVING THE CAPE FLATS SAND FYNBOS

You will no doubt be aware that a number of Tokai residents in Cape Town are taking SANParks and MTO (the company harvesting the commercial plantations at Tokai) to court to prevent the removal of the pines in Tokai Park. The Cape Flats Sand Fynbos, with its remarkable biodiversity, once covered all of Cape Town's lowlands and now sadly has been reduced to a mere 11% of its original extent with only about 1% formally protected. This is why the restoration of a large tract at Tokai is so very important. We are battling to…
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