South African Country Life – September 2019

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A Sea Change is Coming


The battle to save our ocean diversity is on, writes ANDREA ABBOTT.


Marine Protected Areas are on a rising tide and there are more in the of¿ng


PICTURES ANDREA ABBOTT AND SUPPLIED


ABOVE: Sodwana’s coral reefs are pristine. Here, sea goldies gather around thistle coral in the foreground and leather coral in the background. (Picture Eve Marshall)
BELOW LEFT: A diver admires a school of slingers in the waters off Sodwana Bay. (Picture Coral Divers) BELOW RIGHT: A marbled leopard grouper prowls about under
a shelf of bright corals. (Picture: Eve Marshall)
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