Your Restoration Stories
Amidst increasingly challenging environmental and economic conditions, the reintroduction of a herd of Cape mountain zebra brought inspiration to the western Baviaanskloof farming community.
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After more than 100 years of tillage, the sugarcane fields of Cranburn Farm’s soil organic carbon is at healthy levels. Ever since the ground was first turned the soil carbon levels of KwaZulu-Natal’s sugar cane fields have plummeted. Despite the fact that sugarcane is a perennial crop and the fields don’t have to be ploughed every year, the extensive tilling work done every ten or so years when then crop is replanted results in considerable carbon oxidation into the atmosphere. Other management practices that contribute to further carbon oxidation from the soils include burning of the trash (dead leaves) before a field is cut and the application of synthetic fertilisers.
Read moreReStory narrator: James Blignaut [This article was first published by The Daily Maverick. The article can be found here: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-12-09-baviaanskloof-where-the-lionheart-dwells/]
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We started the Herding Academy as a holistic platform to share the ancient skill of herding livestock to sustainably preserve nature. Through herding we anticipate and address environmental, socio-economic, cultural and financial challenges on both livestock and game farms as well as reserves.
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I have decided that the degradation that took place will not determine my future. The sun is setting on a degraded past and rising to a restorative future. We are the generation that must act; I acted on my farm. This is was able to do with the help of a large number of people, including the Subtropical Thicket Restoration Programme, the restoration unit of Rhodes University, Living Lands, and the Government of South Africa.
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ReStory narrator: Ken Coetzee Hunters Moon is a private commercial game reserve that was purchased and set up by Bill
Read moreReStory narrator: James Blignaut [This article was first published by The Daily Maverick. The article can be found here: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-11-24-to-survive-first-we-must-heal-the-land-then-the-planet/]
Read moreReStory narrator: James Blignaut [This article was first published by The Daily Maverick. The article can be found here: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-11-12-the-promised-presidential-investment-in-agriculture-needs-to-heal-the-land-and-its-people/]
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It is indeed up to each one of us to play a part in restoring and conserving the precious heritage of our natural veld and soil. And it is not impossible and difficult to make it a lifestyle. It is richly rewarding.
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Addis Ababa is the capital of Ethiopia and urbanisation is increasing and unsustainable. This creates pressure on urban green spaces, negatively affecting the beauty and attractiveness thereof and threatening the ability of these spaces to provide ecological, social and economic functions.
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