UN recognition is latest boost to restoring spekboom across South Africa’s semidesert Karoo

Mongabay
Feb 17, 2026, 7:40 am94 pts
“Spekboom is everywhere, it’s all anyone talks about … what used to be an Angora goat farming town is now a spekboom town,” says field ecologist Rae Attridge. In the past two years, Nat Carbon, the carbon project developer Attridge works for, has planted 10,000 hectares (nearly 25,000 acres) of spekboom…

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