Van Wyksdorp (South Africa) (AFP) – In South Africa’s arid Western Cape, the environmental organisation Jobs 4 Carbon is planting spekboom, a shrub that it hopes will rehabilitate the area’s degraded soil. The red-stemmed bush used to dominate the area, before decades of over-grazing and land mismanagement destroyed it. N°34K23UJ
South Africa’s carbon-trapping spekboom making a comeback
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