SOUTH Africa’s Fynbos Biome, which spans the country’s Western and Eastern Cape provinces, is one of the richest floras in the world. In addition to its spectacular botanical diversity, the region is ...

Here's some advice for landowners wanting to remove pine trees in the hope of seeing fynbos plants on their properties again: do so before the trees have grown there for more than 30 years. The longer ...

Soil and plant samples were analysed by Stellenbosch University postgraduate student Alistair Galloway of the Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology. Galloway says he decided on the topic ...

We typically think of plants strutting their best stuff aboveground: showy flowers, fragrant blossoms, and unique shapes abound. But their development belowground is equally magical. In the study, Lu ...

In the mountains, valleys and plains of the Cape, there are about six thousand species of plants that are not found anywhere else in the world. But as the climate changes, and invasive species and ...

Cape Town - The United Nations Development Programme through the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Special Climate Change Fund has donated $3.5m to South Africa to help with fire management in the ...

Established in 1991, the Flower Valley Conservation Trust is making sure that it creates a fynbos-filled future for life and livelihoods. The trust is a non-profit organisation based on Flower Valley ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Previous studies in the fynbos biome of the Western Cape, South Africa, have suggested that biological decomposition rates in the fynbos ...

Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. For thirty years‚ they lie there beneath the soil‚ waiting for the aliens to leave. But if it ...