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Cape Town Metro Snake Survey – please respond online (no personal details needed) before 1 Nov 2013

If you live in Cape Town, have an interest in or fear of snakes or if you have encountered one, please fill in Grant Smith's survey.

 
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Monsanto failed SA GM Maize pushed into rest of Africa – report by the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB)

Today the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) released a new report ‘Africa bullied to grow defective Bt Maize: the failure of Monsanto’s MON810 maize in South Africa’, showing how Monsanto’s GM maize, which utterly failed in SA, is now being […]

 
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Argentinian Hopper insect introduced into Zeekoevlei to help combat water hyacinth

This is the first time the new water hyacinth hopper has been released in South Africa after extensive research by entomologists at Rhodes University ...

 
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Spring weeds in the garden and for your lunch by Roushanna Gray of Good Hope Nursery

This Spring Greens Soup is so delicious I could have licked the bowl!

 
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GM foods: Latest test results on Maize brands in South Africa

FOOD FASCISM IN SOUTH AFRICA: TIGER BRANDS, PIONEER AND PREMIER FORCE FEEDING THE NATION RISKY GM MAIZE The ACB has today, released test results on the most extensively consumed maize brands in South Africa, which indicate that the entire maize […]

 
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Cape Town’s drinking water – there is no need to use bottled water!

"Many of us take a lot of things for granted in our daily lives. We assume that we will be able to access electricity by flipping a switch ... And we have no doubt that when we turn on a tap, clean and drinkable water will flow."

 
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