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The independent panel noted that no significant harm occurred and has recommended that breaching can continue in exceptional circumstances. (Photo by Leisa Tyler/LightRocket via Getty Images)
ARTIFICIAL BREACHING

Report: Breach of Lake St Lucia estuary did not contravene recommendations

The independent panel noted that no significant harm occurred and has recommended that breaching can continue in exceptional circumstances

  • Sheree Bega
5 min read
Two residents of KwaNibela in northern KwaZulu-Natal rest on a self-built boat at the edge of Lake St Lucia. They sell fish and mats made of grass drawn from the lake at a market in nearby Hluhluwe. (Photographs by Nomfundo Xolo)
CONSERVATION

St Lucia Lake fisher community say they are not ‘poachers’

KwaNibela residents rely on the fish and reeds they harvest within the protected iSimangaliso Wetland Park. But authorities consider this poaching, threatening the community’s…

  • Nomfundo Xolo
6 min read
Hippopotami bathing at Lake St Lucia, in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park. Comprising of 280 km of coastline, iSimangaliso is South Africa’s third-largest protected area. Watching hippopotamus bath in the evening is a popular tourist attraction. (Photo by Leisa Tyler/LightRocket via Getty Images)
ARTIFICIAL BREACHING

Scientific panel yet to be appointed over artificial breach of Lake St Lucia

Scientists and environmental groups are shocked by the move to artificially open the estuary in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park

  • Tunicia Phillips
5 min read