Climate Change and Marion Island Penguins

...While the study that reported this decline omitted over-fishing as a possible factor, it did state the decline was associated with rises in sea surface temperatures and reductions in the penguin's fish source.Trend or Temporary Anomaly?..
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The Urban Malnourished

...Rampant Obesity Epidemic©Andile BhalaChildren from Soweto.The combination of being born undernourished and the increased risk of gaining weight later in life, along with the changes in the places and spaces our people live in, is creating a perfect..
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Boschendal

...Boschendal’s doors have also been thrown open for stay-overs in a variety of accommodation places, from the historic, restored Rhodes Cottage, secluded Trout Cottage and expansive Mountain Villa to a selection of differently sited and delightfully..
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Hamilton Russell Vineyards

...She uses wild suurvygies (sour figs) in malva pudding (a traditional Cape dessert) and fragrant kooigoed (a medicinal renosterveld plant) in a mayonnaise for grilled line fish...
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Middelvlei

...The tasting menu further includes equally traditional Cape snoek fish pâté with pot bread and combines biltong with mozzarella in a toasted sandwich with a difference. Plus there’s a kiddies menu...
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The Travesty of Food Supply and Biofuels

...Even in places where production has increased, it has not kept up with the population growth, according to the FAO. This leaves around a third of sub-Saharan Africa either malnourished or, at very least, undernourished...
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Bird Feather Hygiene

...The powder absorbs the dirt and grime accumulated in the process of feeding on fish or frogs, in often murky water. The birds then strip the downy-dirt off with a pectinate, comb-like, claw and re-oil their feathers with preen oil at the end...
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Jordan

...The farm relies solely on water from two natural springs and its dams are rich in birdlife - the evocative call of the African fish eagle is often heard...
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Geological Formation of South Africa

...Not much else about the Dominion Group is known, as this all happened a very long time ago and there are few places where the rocks are well-preserved...
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Explore the Overberg

...migrants such as curlew sandpipers); reed skulkers such as crakes, flufftails, moorhens and gallinules; the pelicans and seabirds that visit the lake; or even the two resident pairs of fish eagles whose high-pitched call is the song of the wild African..
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Wildlife of Marion Island

...With more places to store it, the animals can bank plenty of oxygen and survive between breaths for these improbable lengths. Pressure increases by one atmosphere every ten metres under water...
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The Value of Nature

...Let's not get bogged down in numbers - by how many tons our fish resources have reduced; the extensive hectares deforested and turned into desert; the vast quantities of poisonous lead burned into the air; the countless number of square kilometres..
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Bird Monogamy

...once off as in the case of African Fish Eagles, Saddle-billed Storks and various ducks and geese, which pair for life or it may occur seasonally as in the case of migratory birds, which only have short periods in which to complete the breeding cycle...
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Dive Sites of Sodwana Bay

...Tiger cowries and other shells add to the beauty of this reef.Anton's Reef©Johan BoshoffTitan trigger fish at a cleaner station.Average depth: 12 m  Maximum depth: 16 m This is one of the best dives in Sodwana...
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Retailers Donating Leftover Food

...‘We throw away the hot cooked food from the deli and the bakery daily,’ he says. ‘If a fish is cooked today...or a burger and chips, for instance, it has to be thrown out today...
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Quiver Tree Southern Range

...Moving South©Shem CompionQuiver trees in Fish River Canyon, Nambia.The conclusion of Foden's study is that the desert is moving south...
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Further Exploring the Ivory Route in Limpopo

...It took much of the day to reach Makuya Park on the Kruger’s northwestern border. Mutale Falls is a spectacular tented camp on the brink of a cliff overlooking the river of the same name. Fish-eagle sentries studded the trees...
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Contour Path: Monks Cowl to Upper Didima Valley

...Just bear in mind that the path at the upper end of the eMhlawazini River has become overgrown in places and this makes progress tedious.A Tough First Haul©Roger de la HarpeView of Champagne Castle and Cathkin Peak.Eventually, you will find yourself..
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Solms-Delta

...You can enjoy the likes of bobotie (a curried meat dish), curried prawns, smoked snoek (fish) and samoosas indoors, outdoors beneath the trees, from a picnic basket in the riverside forest, or at a summer sunset concert overlooking the vineyards...
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Overberg Coastal Hiking Trails

...starfish cornering small molluscs, tiny rock fish, red bait and alikreukels, and even the occasional octopus...
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South Africa Pot of Gold

...The Drakensberg is one of those special places with big sky, towering mountain peaks, a green sea of rolling foothills and a sense of freedom that is good for the soul...
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A Glimpse of Cape Malay Culture

...When the husband arrives home he makes a gift of the rose to his wife and he places the little aromatic sachet in his wardrobe.This will smell of citrus fruit for the next year, perfuming his clothes until the next Feast of the Orange Leaves...
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World Heritage Sites

...Visitors on South African holidays in St Lucia can spot White-backed and Pink-backed Pelican, Lesser Flamingo, Madagascar Fish Eagle and 530 bird species. It also boasts the largest concentration of Hippo in South Africa...
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Fixing Our Relationship with Food

...At least one person has succumbed to the seduction of the local fish ’n chips shop on Rondebosch Main Road, Cape Town...
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Karoo by Campervan

...Today, in the museums and private collections throughout this region, fish scales, millennia old, glint from their ancient rocky graves and the skulls and bones of prehistoric monsters are forever stuck in the sands of drifting time...
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