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The Science Museum group is moving 300,000 objects ranging from a tram, robots and a rubber duck.

Cape Town is struggling to strike a balance between the needs of under-served areas with biodiversity protection and preservation in an urban setting.

Shouts of ‘Don’t turn our wetland into a wasteland!’ echoed outside the high court in Cape Town on Wednesday.

As western leopard toads migrate from the Western Cape’s low-lying areas, vehicles are their greatest threat. Conservationists are stepping in to help.

Noordhoek conservationists take CoCT to court to stop wetland road build 27 April 2021 11:36 AM Share This: Alison Faraday of NEAG and Toadnuts talks to John Maytham about why they believe such a road will degrade the wetlands. The Noordhoek Environmental Action Group (NEAG) is taking the City of Cape Town to court in a bid to halt the building of the Houmoed Phase 1 Extension road that it believes will result in the extinction of the Western Cape Leopard Toad and progressively empty the Noord...

Noordhoek activists in court battle to defend wetlands, endangered toad The endangered western leopard toad is at the centre of a dispute as government approved a ‘crucial’ new Noordhoek link road. The new link road could drive the endangered western leopard toad species to local extinction, environmentalists warn. NOORDHOEK WETLANDS: WHY WAS COURT INTERDICT FILED? Since 2004, there has been a standstill between authorities and environmental groups about the development of the new road that...