South African Country Life – September 2019
A Sea Change is Coming The battle to save our ocean diversity is on, writes ANDREA ABBOTT. Marine Protected Areas are on a risin ...
I n the laid-back village of Sodwana on the far north-eastern Elephant Coast, where, in a sense, the beach and the sea are the m ...
yellowwoodforestsare protected to the mostnorth-easterlyand, at 10 700km²,the biggest iSimangaliso,whereintricate ecosystems ...
SouthAfrica’sMarineProtectedAreas ■ Fora comprehensivelistofpermitted,andprohibitedactivityin MPAs,gpwonline.co.za ■ SAAMBRhaspl ...
“T herestorationofthe FeatherbedReserve afterthedevastating fireof 2017 was a mammothteam effort. Each personhereis proudofthero ...
thesecond-largestestuaryin SouthAfrica, iSimangalisothelargest. Wemarvelat panoramicviewsofthe approachingKnysnaHeadsandThesenIs ...
area. Meticulous records were kept of quantities and types of plants removed. An arduous task. In one area alone, 195 300 plants ...
becausetheycouldnotgetto thesun,sowe removedthem.” Insmallsectionsofthereserve,suchason theslopenextto theFoodForest,the‘sausage ...
T hreading an arrow, she draws her bow, anchors, aims, exhales and releases. The bowstring twangs and an arrow thuds into the br ...
monthsofrecuperation.Shemissedtheannual field-qualificationrounds.“Thingshappen, generallyfora reason,”thefullyrecovered, upbeat ...
dimensionalgameanimalsplacedat known andunknowndistances.Anarchershoots onearrowat eachofthetwentytargetsfor a finalscore. “In19 ...
a series of discordant trenches on the forest floor. “They were made by soldiers during the Anglo-Boer War,” says Regy. “And the ...
African Crowned Eagle parents invest heavily in their young, but ringing these raptors as chicks is key to studying their ecolog ...
T he day was finally here. For half a year we’d watched the dark adults appropriate for themselves an old nest wedged atop a str ...
glimpsedthechickdoingwhatbabyraptors aresupposedto do sleep,eatandgrow. Theparentswerewonderful.Formorethan a monththemotherwas ...
when the mother needs a break, and deliver food directly to the nest for about three weeks after the chick is born, leaving imme ...
Delta Dawn Silently DUNCAN BUTCHART’s mokoro slices through the Okavango channel on a mission to track down Pel’s Fishing Owl. B ...
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birds (and other wildlife)thatit’shardto avoid using the cliché ‘birder’sparadise’.Slaty Egrets (6), Rufous-belliedHerons,Long- ...
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