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1. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · John Yeld

   Lower Tokai fynbos ‘can recover after 130 years under pines’ (opens the original)

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   Two leading fynbos scientists say Lower Tokai can recover after 130 years under pine plantations. But the future of the contested site remains fiercely disputed over restoration and shaded recreation. Fynbos can be restored to its original state even after 130 years of lying dormant in seed form in the soil under pine plantations, two of South Africa’s most eminent fynbos ecology and invasion biology specialists have confirmed. And one of these researchers – Professor Dave Richardson – say

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2. Article · Jul 5, 2026 · John Yeld

   My great gannet getaway – or, a morality tale about greedy expectation (opens the original)

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   Lured by the promised spectacle of 43,000 gannets on Bird Island in Lambert’s Bay, it was somewhat of a shock to find 42,950 missing. We were grateful, then, for the much more obliging cormorants a bit further south down the coast. The first inkling I had that matters might not quite live up to my eager expectation was the surprisingly neutral countenance of the perfectly polite young woman in the ticket booth at the start of the Lambert’s Bay jetty. I mean, here she was, endorsing my entry

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