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Environmentalists have welcomed the official declaration last Friday of the Western Soutpansberg Nature Reserve, a “forgotten mountain” spanning 11 607 hectares of critical biodiversity in Limpopo. (Supplied)
BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS SOUTH AFRICA

The ‘Forgotten Mountain’ is the newest reserve in Limpopo

The biodiversity rich Western Soutpansberg Nature Reserve is made up of eight landowners who manage the land as a collective

  • Sheree Bega
5 min read
Land is about much more that Photo: Michele Spatari/Bloomberg/Getty Images
SOUTPANSBERG

Limpopo farmers forecast crop shortages after cold front, black frost

Farmers want Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen to visit areas in the province where potato and tomato crops, in particular, have been hit

  • Anathi Madubela
2 min read
The United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP)’s compliance watchdog has recommended that it immediately cancel the memorandum of understanding it entered into with the controversial Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone. (Photo: James Puttick)
SOUTPANSBERG

UN to pull out of agreement with Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone

Essential policies were bypassed and entering into a memorandum of understanding with the economic zone would be high risk for United Nations Development Programme This content…

  • Sheree Bega
1 min read