Author: Daren

Frogs, toads and Kassinas

Bubbling Kassina (Kassina senegalensis) A medium sized (to 40mm) ground dwelling amphibian which prefers to walk rather than hop. They walk a few quick paces, then pause before continuing to walk another few paces. All kassinas are walkers. It is an abundant species, prefering both temporary and permanent water, favouring large well-vegetated pools. They lay between […]

Mamba Kop

Tree planting on Arbour Day September 2017, to help Mamba Kop recover after the fire in the winter of 2015

FIREFLY SANCTUARY

Firefly Sanctuary Leisure Bay The Leisure Bay Conservancy Committee in 2020 decided to conserve wetland adjacent to Kids Beach parking area, which was home to fireflies and in which visitors’ cars were getting stuck in the mud. It became the first fire fly sanctuary in the Southern Hemisphere. Below is a short story about the […]

Drakes Bay, North Dune: Rehab Plan, Site Pictures

DUNE REHABILITATION PLAN FOR DRAKES BAY, LEISURE BAY, RAY NKONYENI MUNICIPALITY, UGU DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY, KZN   GREEN- SCENE ENVIRONMENTAL 1.  BACKGROUND Green-scene environmental has been approached by the Leisure Bay Conservancy to compile a rehabilitation plan for the placement of vegetation on the exposed sand dunes in Drakes bay, located in Leisure Bay, Ugu district […]

Drakes Bay, North Dune: Rehab Plan

DUNE REHABILITATION PLAN FOR DRAKES BAY, LEISURE BAY, RAY NKONYENI MUNICIPALITY, UGU DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY, KZN   GREEN- SCENE ENVIRONMENTAL 1.  BACKGROUND Green-scene environmental has been approached by the Leisure Bay Conservancy to compile a rehabilitation plan for the placement of vegetation on the exposed sand dunes in Drakes bay, located in Leisure Bay, Ugu district […]

Drakes Bay, North Dune: Draft Maintenance Management Plan

MAINTENANCE AND MONITORING OF THE REHABILITATION PROCESS 1. INTRODUCTION The Drakes bay dunes have been subjected to erosion by means of wind erosion that has left the sides of the dunes severely undercut well large areas of the dune being without vegetation. The current state of erosion is on the dunes in Drakes Bay is […]

Tony Abbott

Tony Abbott: Keen botanist who fought for endangered species Sunday Times20 Oct 2013 AMATEUR EXPERT: Tony Abbott discovered five species TONY Abbott, who has died in KwaZulu-Natal aged 77, was one of the foremost amateur botanists in the world and a fighter for the protection of endangered species. He founded the Umtamvuna River Trust, which […]