This year’s South African theme was Mountains of Abundance.
This amazing plant creates “forest-like micro-environments”, a ‘carpet’ of leaves that trap water and dust and nutrients, as well as carbon.
37 plant species have gone extinct in the Western Cape since 1900, making us one of “the hot spots for plant extinction on the planet”.
Tonight sees a very special auction going under the hammer and the fine folk of Cape Town seem very intrigued. You guys further afield can still get involved, don’t worry.
There was plenty of misinformation flying around regarding the Cape fires and their effect on the environment. Here’s the lowdown on where the blaze leaves us fynbos-wise.