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Brandon Sun By: Tyler Clarke and Colin Slark Posted: A firefighter uses a hose to put out a fire in a house’s backyard near Roundell Road on Thursday afternoon. High wildfire danger levels have resulted in swaths of burn bans and travel restrictions to be put in place throughout the province. (Drew May/The Brandon Sun) High wildfire danger levels have resulted in swaths of burn bans and travel restrictions to be put in place throughout the province. Advertisement High wildfire danger levels have resu...

Firefighters rush to contain blazes cropping up in Cape Town Citizen reporter Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries’ Kluitjieskraal team fighting a fire in the area on Friday. Image: Twitter/@wo_fire Cape Town is currently experiencing strong winds, which increase the risk of wildfires burning out of control.  70 firefighters and three helicopters have been dispatc...

Covered in sandy, nutrient-starved soils, scorched by fire, and pummelled by the prevailing gale-force southeaster in summer, the Cape Floral Kingdom has persisted as a land of extreme paradoxes for millenniums. Given the harsh conditions that assail life here, this world seems to have every reason not to be a botanical number cruncher’s wet dream: the untrained eye may hardly conceive that it gives refuge to nearly 20% of Africa’s flora on less than 0.5% of the continent’s surface. It seems implausible that some 9 000 plant species should thrive in these coastal extremities, 70% of whi...