Land given back to Mamre residents – (curated as of interest to Tygerberg Nature Reserve and Cape Town).
Cape Town – The Mamre community will on Tuesday be given the title deeds to 4 200 hectares of farm land taken from their grandparents under the apartheid government more than two decades ago. The handover by Rural Development and Land Reform …
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Bridging the gap between rich and poor – (curated as of interest to Tygerberg Nature Reserve and Cape Town).
There is not one square metre of unoccupied land, and about 10 000 residents have squeezed themselves into a nature reserve wetlands which is flooded every winter. This community still has only one access road, as was the norm during apartheid, which …
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Protecting protected areas – (curated as of interest to Tygerberg Nature Reserve and Cape Town).
Zandvlei Nature Reserve needed a new weed harvester, as the old machine in use could not do the job properly. In the Tygerberg area, which includes the Bothasig Fynbos Nature Reserve, staff got by with “unreliable and old vehicles”. – Cape Argus.
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The closing of Tygerberg Zoo – (curated as of interest to Tygerberg Nature Reserve and Cape Town).
This is no less true of Rhodes, whose animal husbandry initiatives extended to the creation of a small zoo at his reserve in the Matopos near Bulawayo. "I must have my lions and tigers roaming about in their natural state," he told an aide. "I cannot …
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