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Africa’s raptors on the brink
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Imagine a world where iconic African raptor species like the secretarybird, Wahlberg’s eagle, African harrier-hawk and brown snake eagle, amongst others, are no longer around – vanished from the landscape. While this may sound like a doomsday prediction, without intervention, this might one day be a reality – especially in the west of the African continent.
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Biodiversity loss drove ecological collapse after the ‘Great Dying’, new study reveals.
05:22|Biodiversity loss may be the harbinger of a more devastating ecological collapse, an international team of scientists have discovered. By exploring the stability and collapse of marine ecosystems during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, researchers have gained worrying insights into the modern biodiversity crisis, given that the rate of species loss today outpaces that during the event, known as the ‘Great Dying’.You and your food
05:13|The solution to both these problems is simple. Its carbon, the fact that it is in the atmosphere rather than in the soil. The Green Revolution and industrialisation of agriculture have been everything but green.
Weeklikse Landbou oorsig met Prof Johan Willemse 28/11/2024
12:37|Weeklikse opsomming Landbou Prof Johan WillemseWhy does Africa continue to underperform?
08:33|Scars remain from nearly all of Africa having been aggressively colonised. Greed mixed with racism to crush long-standing social structures while looting resource wealth. However, many of today’s most dynamic economies are former colonies. Their impressive successes followed colonialism’s uprooting of conventions which were becoming outdated. Perhaps colonialism should be categorised as a particularly ugly phase among a long series of highly disruptive industrial-era advances.Urgent calls to action that’ll help us all save the world.
04:09|Global population projected to exceed 8 billion in 2022; half live in just seven countries. The world's population cross 8 billion in November 2022. And more than half of all people live in just seven countries.
Weeklikse Landbou oorsig met Prof Johan Willemse 21 November 2024
11:35|Weeklikse Landbouoorsig met Prof Johan Willemse
Droogte in Kenhardt in die Noord Kaap - Suid Afrika
04:06|Die Kenhardt Boerevereniging het kuilvoer aangekoop om onder die boere te versprei, en ons is diep dankbaar vir die publiek se ondersteuning. Elke hart wat bloei vir die boer, sy vee word opreg waardeer.Terwyl ons saam met die boere hoop en bid vir reën, weet ons dat sommige dalk nie hierdie krisis sal oorleef nie. Maar met gemeenskapsamewerking en die land se steun, is daar steeds 'n vonkie hoop in Kenhardt.Mense wat skunking wil maak met voer of vervoer van voer of geld skenk om aankope te doen is welkom: BRING HOOP , Standard Bank, Tjek rekening, Rek No: 10209381971 Tak kode: 051001 verwysing Hoop/jou naam kontak persoon is : Chris van Biljon 082 961 6620