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…read more