Forest fires burn down historic South African library and plant collection

Forest fires burn down historic South African library and plant collection

Forest fires raging in South Africa’s Table Mountain National Park have reached the University of Cape Town (UCT) and gutted the reading room of its main library, which houses irreplaceable documents and records from the country’s past. Amid apocalyptic scenes on April 18, fire tore through part of the 200-year-old...

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Inaugural IUCN Africa protected areas congress relaunched in Rwanda

Inaugural IUCN Africa protected areas congress relaunched in Rwanda

Rwanda will in March 2022 host the inaugural IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) to discuss conservation of the continent’s protected areas, the global conservation body, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), has announced. The announcement follows the relaunch of APAC in Kigali, Rwanda on April 20, 2021. The...

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