In South Africa there’s a little-known ecosystem, containing more plant species than the entire Amazon, plants that are found ...

With the devastation being caused by the current fires in Cape Town, it is important to remember that fire forms part of Table Mountain's natural ecosystem. According to SanParks, "Fynbos is a ...

Cape Town – Four days after a fire took flame in the Bain’s Kloof Pass, a large tract of fynbos lay scorched as fire-fighters battle to keep the blaze under control. Die Burger reports that 270ha of ...

The devastating series of fires that have ravaged large parts of the Western Cape, including Table Mountain, probably wiped out species of fynbos in the unique Cape floral kingdom as well as animal ...

Fynbos is the most wonderful thing. On January 3, 2019, we drove away from a wasteland after what seemed like a fire holocaust had engulfed our family property lying in the foothills of the ...

Firefighters battled through the night to contain a blaze at Brenton-on-Sea, near Knysna. "The fire started about 12.45pm yesterday. It's a vegetation fire, all the old fynbos between the homes is ...

At least 500 hectares of 15-year-old fynbos was lost in the fire that swept through part of Paarl mountain, the Drakenstein municipality said as operations were scaled down on Friday. "The fact that ...

Top environmental scientists are applying their minds to develop an integrated fire management programme for the world-famous fynbos biome that will have significant environmental, social and economic ...

As devastating as the ongoing fires around the Cape Peninsula have been to property and tracts of nature reserve, regular fires every 15 years are critical to the rebirth of fynbos-dominated ...

Two thousand hectares of fynbos have been burnt as fires continue to rage in the Overstrand area, the municipality said. "A cottage has burnt down on a farm and there has been damage to a building," ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The fires that started on 18 April 2021 on the slopes of Table Mountain in South Africa destroyed several buildings on the campus of the University of Cape Town . These ...

1. Regeneration, mortality, local extinction, growth and foliar elemental concentrations of indigenous (ericoid, restioid, proteoid) and alien (acacia) plant forms and concentrations of soil elements ...