Doring River News Today

Nick Yell finds a springtime nirvana fit for Bushmen, poets and mothers-in-law in the Biedouw valley in the Cederberg

If you know where to look and when to go, the ancient Cederberg mountains will fill you with awe and wonder.

The Emalahleni Local Municipality has been granted an interdict against protesters complaining about services who blocked streets in Indwe, Eastern Cape.

Southern African research into the behavioural evolution of Late Pleistocene human adaptability, flexibility, and innovation is typically pursued through the lens of rock shelter deposits. However, rock shelters only cover a very small, geographically specific area of the subcontinent, distorting our understanding of change in human-environment interaction and demography. While still under-represented and under-explored in regional syntheses, more studies are looking to open-air archaeology to f...

Migratory life cycle of the species that protects river systems makes them vulnerable to human-linked impacts

Decades of predation by introduced non-native fishes and excessive withdrawal of water contributing to rapid decline of sandfish ranges.

Landowners are helping with transporting rescued sandfish and replacing old instream fencing with sandfish friendly fencing.

Sandfish keep the rivers clean and the food web balanced but their numbers are declining. Farmers are helping to lift these numbers.

Saving Sandfish Project has conservationists, farmers, landowners and other stakeholders working together

This article discusses the development and implementation of a mobile GIS catch-and-release system for documenting large surface artifact scatters along the Doring River in South Africa. An integrated, cloud-based mobile GIS solution was built using a suite of ESRI ArcGIS applications with an aim to maximize the speed and breadth of techno-typological data capture, while minimizing data collection errors and post-processing requirements. The system was successfully implemented during the 2019 fi...