ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS

US Human Trials of GM banana for Africa widely condemned by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)

"... Ugandans know what is super because we have been eating homegrown GM-free bananas for centuries. This GM Banana is an insult to our food, to our culture, to us a nation, and we strongly condemn it.“

 
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The Whale Coast Conservation Newsletter for Dec 2014 is full of informative news

The Whale Coast Conservation newsletter for December contains information about the launch of the Cape Whale Coast Hope Spot in Hermanus, the Night of 1000 Drawings, the Hermanus CBD By-Pass road ...

 
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Dr Sylvia Earle launches six new Hope Spots in South Africa between Cape Town and Durban

"Networks of marine protected areas maintain healthy biodiversity, provide a carbon sink, generate life-giving oxygen, preserve critical habitat and allow low-impact activities like ecotourism to thrive. They are good for the ocean, which means they are good for us."

 
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DAFF Determines Abalone 2014/2015 TAC – a report from Feike Natural Resource Management Advisors

The 96 ton TAC is identical to that set for the previous season (24) but could conceivably be increased once the DAFF confirms the findings of its two experimental fishery programmes which were conducted in the False Bay.

 
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AGRA’s scandalous subsidisation of big fertiliser, financial and agribusiness corporations in Africa

In a scandalous move of skulduggery, the African Fertiliser and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP), under the guise of empowering smallholder farmers in Africa, is subsidising multinational fertiliser and financial corporations on African soil.

 
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Lobster/crayfish season 2014/2015

The recreational fishery will be restricted to 21 fishing days spread between SATURDAY 15 November and the Easter Weekend ...

 
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