His name’s Bond, William Bond, and he says it’s time to put fire to the veld. To save it.
Greening the economy
Yves Vanderhaeghen reports on a social enterprise aiming to farm and harvest Honeybush tea and regenerate the Langkloof catchment area at the same time.
We live in the age of the Anthropocene – a period during which human activity is having to have a significant impact on the planet’s climate and ecosystems. In this era we have seen many flourish, but at great cost to the environment and the species we share the planet with.
“Artificial light is really interesting and it’s really scary – it’s doing things to the environment that we just don’t think about” says 2020 JWO Grant winner, Dr Bernard Coetzee.