Researchers from Wageningen and Stellenbosch universities are not monkeying about as they try to uncover the aspects of creating a harmonious relationship between humans and baboons who call the Bitou region home.
Bronze whaler sharks are continuing to strand in worrying numbers off the Eastern Cape coast and videos of the big fish swimming in a disorientated way in river mouths and harbours and bashing into sand banks are doing the rounds.
There is an apocryphal Nature’s Valley story that tells of a large troop of baboons that swaggered down the Groot River Pass one day bent on some suburban plundering, only to be headed off at the bridge by the baboon monitors. A resident described the episode to me with wry amusement. “The troop sat on one side of the bridge and stared at the monitors, and the monitors stared back at them.
Tsitsikamma reserve granted rates exclusion Private property supported by Wilderness Foundation Africa wins ruling PREMIUM By Guy Rogers - 20 January 2021
A Tsitsikamma property no longer has to pay rates thanks to the implementation of a little known rates exclusion law designed to promote conservation.
Candice Stevens of Wilderness Foundation Africa, which helped drive the municipal rates exclusion application process, said the private property near Nature’s Valley was a contract national park which formed part of the Garden Route National Park.
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