South Africa’s new gold rush: Big money, high stakes in emerging spekboom restoration sector

Mongabay
Aug 27, 2026, 5:34 pm104 ptsTrending
This is the first article in Mongabay’s three-part investigation of spekboom-led ecosystem restoration in South Africa. It is part of an award-winning collaboration between independent science writer Leonie Joubert, the Stellenbosch University School for Climate Studies, and the Henry Nxumalo Foundation which…

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