Garden Route Faces Growing Wildfire Threat as Invasive Plants and Dry Conditions Raise Alarm
The Garden Route is facing a growing wildfire and environmental threat, with invasive alien plants, increasingly dry conditions and the risk of more intense fires placing added pressure on the region’s ecosystems.
Veteran environmental manager Dr Guy Preston recently visited the Garden Route following the region’s extreme weather events and described the extent of invasive alien plants as “among the worst in the country”.
According to Cobus Meiring of the Garden Route Environmental Forum, Preston expressed serious concern about the unchecked spread of invasive vegetation. Dense stands of…
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