New ‘wilderness development’ takes shape in the Zulu heartland – Babanango Game Reserve

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 04:59:23 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-07-01-new-wilderness-development-takes-shape-in-the-zulu-heartland-babanango-game-reserve/>

"At a time when living space for wild creatures is being destroyed or degraded
at an alarming pace, the restoration of a large new African landscape for
nature conservation is a cause for celebration.

This is particularly so when the project also aims to create jobs and economic
upliftment for local landowners – without dynamiting or drilling into the earth
to extract minerals and fossil fuels, or ripping the soil apart and dousing it
with chemicals and fertilisers to develop large-scale crops or timber
plantations.

Instead, the emphasis is on “rewilding” a degraded environment to secure more
space for the multitude of non-human life forms squeezed from their habitats in
the Anthropocene Era.

Such a task is easier said than done. Yet the developers of the new Babanango
Game Reserve in northern KwaZulu-Natal seem to have made a good start."

Via Fix the News:
<https://fixthenews.com/good-news-global-emotions-poverty-indonesia-bluefin-tuna/>

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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