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The trillion-tree planting scam

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Billion and trillion-tree planting campaigns profit only greenwashing financiers and academics fronting stranded-asset management strategies.

Photograph and video: CSR Newsroom

Parkscape Running on Empty in Tokai

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Parkscape is not interested in securing your safety from fire or crime. It cares little whether you get to enjoy trees or fynbos in our National Park. It speaks for those who see property prices in the greater Constantia Valley tanking as the area becomes divorced from its 18-20th Century fantasy of a shaded boreal “forest” in the heart of the Cape Floral Region and is forced to join other Cape Town suburbs on the Cape Flats, where our Sand Fynbos is of infinitely greater value to future generations than the prices fetched for the houses of a few.

Photograph Shawn Benjamin

Tokai’s Spurned Lovers Doth Protest Too Much

Tokai’s upmarket suburban guerillas take to urbane toyi-toying, svelte service-delivery protest and high-priced court interdicts in the name of conservation, biodiversity and an irrational love of the lowly, highly flammable Tokai Plantation’s pine trees. Confusing? You betcha.

Alien landscape

SANParks Moves to Save Tokai

“We welcome public involvement in projects and initiatives hosted by our citizen volunteers in the Friends Groups, Honorary Rangers and Fire-fighting teams…and we invite the public to join these groups to assist us in conserving our natural heritage.” South African National Parks (SANParks) 30 August 2016 Eighteen months have passed […]

SANBI Restoration Ecologist Dr Tony Rebelo slams VWS blanket fire suppression policy

Rebelo Slams Blanket Fire Suppression

“… VWS is Fynbos’s mortal enemy.” Dr Tony Rebelo – SANBI Restoration Ecologist

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