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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
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