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"Thomas Pringle's Plantation"
Thomas Pringle (1789–1834) was perhaps the most famous of the British settlers who landed at the Cape in 1820…
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"A Soil Conservation Safari: Hugh Bennett's 1944 Visit to South Africa"
Hugh Bennett, then Chief of the United States Soil Conservation Service, paid a two-month official visit to South Africa in 1944, a trip that threw into relief, inter alia, the administrative division between the Department of Agriculture, responsible for soil conservation on white-owned farms, and the Department of Native Affairs, responsible for soil conservation in so-called ‘native areas.’
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"Poisonous Plants, Pastoral Knowledge and Perceptions of Environmental Change in South Africa, c. 1880–1940"
The paper discusses the expansion of toxicological and ecological knowledge about the grasslands of South Africa and explores some of the measures put forward to encourage more sustainable animal husbandry.
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Environment, Power and Injustice: A South African History
This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa.
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Horn
This film explores the social dimensions of the illegal rhino horn trade in South Africa.
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"Prehistory of Southern African Forestry: From Vegetable Garden to Tree Plantation"
This paper explores the history of trees and scientific forestry in South Africa and how it changed southern African hydrologies.
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"Invasive Narratives and the Inverse of Slow Violence: Alien Species in Science and Society"
Through a case study of the “invasive alien species” (IAS) narrative in South Africa, Susanna Lidström, Simon West, Tania Katzschner, M. Isabel Pérez-Ramos, and Hedley Twidle suggest that IAS oversimplifies the webs of ecological, biological, economic, and cultural relations to a simple “good” versus “bad” battle between easily discernible “natural” and “nonnatural” identities.
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"When Race and Social Equity Matters in Nature Conservation in Post-apartheid South Africa"
The authors draw on empirical experience to assess the extent of the impact of race and social equity in conservation, with the aim of promoting sustainable and more inclusive conservation practices in South Africa. Their findings suggest conservation practices in post-apartheid South Africa are still exclusionary for the majority black population.