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WHO REALLY BENEFITS FROM FEEDING GARDEN BIRDS? (Part 1 of 3)

Charles and Julia Botha Charles and Julia Botha are the authors of Bring Nature Back to your Garden and Bring Butterflies Back to your Garden. Both their books have won book prizes from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. With their kind permission, we reproduce an article written and adapted by them for Environment from one by the same authors entitled Food for thought; who benefits from feeding birds? Africa Birds & Birding, 2009, 14 (3) 36-41. The article will appear in our Newsletter in three parts. Here is the first. Most people derive immense pleasure from…
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GOOD NEWS FROM HAROLD PORTER!

Bridges in Disa Kloof undergo repairs at last After a very lengthy and frustrating wait, the bridges which were damaged by the massive floods in November 2013, are finally being repaired.  We are delighted and relieved to be able to announce that repairs started on Monday 18 January 2016 and should be completed in June of this year. The long wait was caused by having to comply with the many regulations demanded by the Department of Environmental Affairs, which included a Botanical Survey, an Environmental Impact Assessment and a Hydrology Study, all of which had…
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AFTER THE FIRE

The fire that started on 4 March this year on the far side of the Dawidskraal River, swept across the commonage for the next three days. It left in its trail a desolate landscape. Amazingly, in less than two weeks, bright red clumps of April Fool (Haemanthus canaliculatus) could already be seen, flowering bravely amid the ash and blackened vegetation. This is an endemic plant, appearing only after fires in marshes between Rooi Els and Betty’s Bay. Arum lilies came next, followed by dense stands of light-green Bog Fern (Thelypteris confluens) and clumps of the camphor-scented white Swamp…
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