October 2022 udate to a 2018 post disussing marine water flow

 It is now October 2022 and the mouth of the St. Lucia estuary is currently open.  but ... there are now even bigger problems, coz the silt that came along for the ride, during the April / May 2022 floods, and stayed behind in problem zones,  is preventing the flood waters from returning to the ocean.

I am not an artist, and can't find somebody to draw a few pics to explain the issue, so let us test my storytelling skills.. and find out if I can tell the rather nasty story around the silt issue in just words...with no images...

Well, the story is all about the SILT and debris that come along with flood waters.

So when water is flowing fast it can pick up stuff and carry that stuff along for the ride. what stuff are we talking about here? Well, any small loose stuff like topsoil, leaves, dead grass, plastic bags, and any wind-blown items. this all ends up in the river.

So not all this stuff ends up at the bottom end of the water flow pattern, which is the ocean. Sea water evaporates, it rains, the rainwater flows back into the sea then the cycle continues. but the debris and stuff carried to the lower end of the water flow cycle is the issue.  this stuff can not be evaporated by the sun, so it just accumulates and accumulates more.   Now the 2017 GEF-funded project which connected the Umfolozi River System to the Northern sections of Lake St. Lucia needs to be very carefully added to the narrative here, coz this nasty crime against the environment was supported with great vigour and pleasure by the IWPA, which had alternative agendas that the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority needed to address. 

Removing the natural renewable resources from the local environment would suit these guys (IWPA) very nicely, coz that would bankrupt the local folks, and thus prevent them from acquiring legal assistance during their expulsions from the area,  why? coz t is a world heritage site, so the locals must pack up their bags and leave.   The locals however showed the IWPA a very big toffee, and basically stayed put, and are now indigent and living in a space that should be abounding with nature, but is a rather nasty-looking space where drought has taken its toll, and the environment is in a very bad way.

The fact that the elites operating high-end International tourism businesses from the town / village of St Lucia, see these local folks as "POACHERS" and undesirable is due to the extremely successful public perception management strategies applied by one ANDREW ZALOUMIS as CEO of the IWPA, following instructions from the national tourism bodies... Remember the Transfrontier park Any way let's focus on the mud stuff.

If water is carrying stuff (SILT) along coz it has some speed, where will this stuff all end up? 

Well, that answer is simple... wherever the water slows down... the slower it gets the more stuff drops out.  Now the issue suddenly becomes where does the water slow down enough to cause dropouts to start happening?

Now the area from the N2  (National Road) to the ocean is rather far, about 25 KM, and with some twists and turns in the Umfolozi River pathway, that ends up at around 30 Km. Within this space, the Umfolozi river floods its banks and starts filling up the Monzi flood plains, the Umfolozi flats, the Sokhulu swamps and Mapelane bogs, but still flows rather strong in the true flow zone. 

the water flowing in the true flow zone of the Umfolozi River soes not actually slow down, and rushes along carrying its silt load all the way, back inalnd through the St. Lucia narrows, coz of the 2017 GEF Project.

This means that the water in the true flow zone is still carrying gross volumes of silt.  During the last few years in the post-2017 GEF project years, this has repeated many times over, with enormous volumes of silt being deposited at the Northern edges of the narrows, where the St. Lucia Narrows join the ST. Lucia lake system, at the lake's most southern tip. 

So the Northern end of the narrows (Fast flowing water) meets the Southern edge of the lake,(Standing water)  and then stops flowing instantly.  This causes the most horrid scenario where the silt just builds a big wall of heavy silt dropouts.  

During flood times the water arrives at this build point shown in the Google Map Below, and this is serious.  coz why? coz the silt carrying water continues to arrive   .. and continues for days, last time in the April / May 2022 floods the water carried on coming for more than 6 weeks... think about that for six weeks !!!!!!

60 seconds in a minute... then

60 minutes in an hour... then

24 hours a day... 

then 7 days a week ...   

for six weeks?   6 whole weeks..?

All this water was carrying silt, and the silt all dropped out where the water slowed down...  the wall that is still there now is a true nasty problem, and we as human beings need to do something, coz we as human beings caused that silt to rnd up in that space. If nature was left to take its own course, this would never have happened. The mouth would have opened, and the silt would have been deposited in the ocean. The ocean is a high-energy zone, and the silt would have been distributed over a very large area, causing minimal negative impacts. The opposite is now true, where the silt has accumulated in a very small area, and now acts as a dam wall keeping the Umfolozi Flood waters within the Lake St. Lucia system.

St. Lucia estuary mouth is closing!

 This pic was taken on Saturday 11  June 2022.  The St. Lucia estuary mouth is where three water sources meet. First is the Umfolozi River mouth. Next is the lake tidal link and the third is the Indian ocean. In the past. The Umfolozi and Mzundusi overflow were managed separately from the lake tidal link. The main reasoning behind this separation was the vast quantities of silt within the Umfolozi River flood waters. 

The 2017 GEF PROJECT ignored this silt factor,  and the scientists appointed by the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority ran a very effective public perception management strategy to endure that the public accepted their rather nasty proposal to link the Umfolozi River directly to the rest of the St. Lucia lake systems, in their efforts to get water into the St. Lucia lake systems.

The results are now evident as can be seen here. Silt has settled in nasty places and clogged up the inter-tidal flow paths  Mud, mud and more mud  now needed to be removed.  This is going to be difficult.

What ideas do you have that may help us solve this problem ?

Got an idea ?  One that may help solve the problem ! Send it to 4u2fish@info4u.co.za

 

The silt levels within the St. Lucia lake and estuary systems is  much worse than the IWPA is telling.  The tidal link between the lake and estuary systems is now a thing of the past, but we need this tidal channel to work so that the fish breeding and nursery grounds may become functional.  the St. Lucia lake  system used to sustain more than 60 percent of all fish breeding grounds in South Africa.  This is now not available to our fish stocks. thus is a rather nasty problem, and our marine fish stocks are suffering a very disturbing loss of juvenile recruitment , meaning that this is leading to a collapse of our coastal fish stocks.

what to do ?  everybody appears to be ignoring these losses of nursery grounds for our coastal marine fishes.

how will we bring this problem into the foreground of nature conservation and the management of our local  natural renewable resources ?

any help will be appreciated.   see our Facebook pages at facebook.com/4u2fish and leave a comment discussing your views on this nasty problem.

the 4u2fish campaign supports the 7474dash21 campaign

The 7474dash21 campaign is in place to raise funds for us (4u2fish Campaign) to raise funds for our legal action against the minister and the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority.

This is a very complicated affair, where access to and sales of natural renewable resources is at stake. The IWPA or iSimangaliso Wetland park Authority has iplimented policies and regulations that makes harvesting of natural renewable resources illegal. This is violating our economic rights in terms of section 24 (b)III

This is a huge problem as there are many different local communities who have been using these renewable natural resources as a  abstantial portion of their personal income and living resources. With these natural renewable sources out of the picture, these folks are in real economic distress, and basically destitute

which way to move and how to take legal actions against the authorities and relevant government departments which are violating our economic rights in terns of section 24 (b) (iii) is quite a serious issue. finding a legal team who are willing to take on the negative feed back and associated public critisism  from the GREENIES like those who ensured that the 4x4 Ban was successfully implemented is rather difficult. The reason here is the very high level, government assisted public perception management strategies which the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority (IWPA) have implemented over the years. this has caused a major misconception within the public debate spaces and associated news paper 

Our best bet is to sue the Minister of Environmental Affairs for violation of our economic rights . We have started by requesting the public Protector to investigate these matters, and our file reference number  with the Public Protector is 7474 /  21 / KZN

more info coming just as soon as we have the resources to put it here and make any such info available to you our valued readers. so please subscribe to this blog should you want to be kept upto date with the issues connected to the FUNCTIONALITY OF THE ST. LUCIA ESTUARY SYSTEM .

My Good Friend Petrus Viviers runs a few YouTube Channels discussing many of the issues that impact on the ecology and related domestic tourism associated with a functional estuary and lake system Take a #PEEPSEE at his work and get informed about the St. Lucia Experience

Other links the St. Lucia Experience

Panel of experts discuss St. Lucia estuary management issues

St. ucia lake and estuary systems stake holder engagement meeting held at Elephant lake hotel, in St. Lucia on 15 and 16 November 2021

St. Lucia lake and estuary systems stake holder engagement meeting held at Elephant lake hotel, in St. Lucia on 15 a

Meeting notes and feed back for online audience.

#Frankie2Socks attended the first three legs on behalf of the #4u2fish campaign.

1. Agriculture on Umfolozi Flats and surrounding areas

2. Tourism issues in St. Lucia toursim node

3. Fishing issues within the iSimangaliso Wetland Park focusing on estuary and lake issues

The first two legs were well attended with suitable representatives who were knowledgeable on their areas of concern. The third leg where fishing was the core theme was very poorly attended with just three concerned citizens showing their faces (including myself #Frankie2Socks)

The purpose of these stake holder engagement meetings was defined each time as being a source of information for the panel . What the panel instruction was or is was not discussed in depth, besides that this panel will make a recommendation to the minister on a way forward regarding the ecological and Environmental MANAGEMENT of the St. Lucia lake and estuarine systems.

One  person from Khula area arrived late, coz he found out about the meeting late. He represented some  land claimants in the area, but did not make a presentation, as he was not prepared. He did however say most of the same things that others had said at earlier stake holder meetings, which was very helpful in putting one solid well supported story in the picture,  and not a bunch of separate private issues and individual petty complaints.

All stake holders were on the same page at each meeting. All stake holders require a functional estuary system, and all stake holders have issues with the manner in which the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority behave and interact with the public and our concerns about our livlihoods. 

All four of us pushed the same core theme, that the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority are responsible for the current catastrophic collapse of the biodiversity within the St. Lucia lake and estuary systems.

During all three sessions the core complaint was that the estuary is nonfunctional, and the silt levels within these interconnected systems are unacceptable and exceptionally problematic to remove, as tidal ebb and flow will not have the scouring power needed to agitate, then pick up and remove this SILT.

The panel of experts did seem to understand our concerns, and asked some relevant questions. This panel of experts is set to deliver their findings and recommendations in March 2022, which is on the other side of our rainy season. We are currently in an extended drought, from the late 1980's so we do have serious issues with water quantity and quality. Then there is so called GLOBAL WARMING which is somehow not properly in the picture.

The amount of silt that will enter our lake and esturine systems before actions are taken to separate the Umfolozi mud stream from the St. Lucia  lake system in the far north is going to cause some real nasty problems. The burm between the Estuary systems and the ocean is (currently Nov 2022) quite high, and wind born sediments coming from the North are accumulating on the burm, growing it higher. This wind born sediment is rather serious, as the beaches between first rocks and the estuary mouth are currently rather long,  in some cases being in excess of 500 meters at low tide. This can change overnight with one big wind and associated sea current moving all this sand in less than 24 hours.

So things are dynamic, and can change Rather suddenly. These sudden changes will not, and can not remove compacted dried silt on the estuary basins or the water flow channels due to the excessive reed growth within the system which was exacerbated by the 2017 ecological and Environmental terrorist activity by the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority, ( GEF PROJECT) which was sanctioned and approved by the minister. 

The joining of the Umfolozi River and the northern sections of the lake was a true disaster, which the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority put forward as REHABILITATION. 

This so called rehabilitation was in my mind not rehabilitation, but an active ecological disaster in the making. Over the years the Umfolozi River has been manipulated by different groups, and the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority has contributed greatly to these bad river management tactics through their attitude towards problem solving and being extremely autocratic and non co-opperstive at many levels, including the local municipality IDP PROCESS,  which the IWPA refuses to acknowledge and participate in, claiming "WORLD HERITAGE STATUS" 

This needs to be addressed, as the iSimangaliso Wetland Park no longer meets the criteria for world heritage status, and many folks would now like the area to be stripped of this world heritage status as things have just deteriorated since the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority took over management of the Greater St. Lucia Wetlands Park way back in December 1999. Name changes aside, this management structure is not conducive to co-,operative governance and this task team investigating the estuary management issues needs to be pro-active and place blame for bad decisions  where it belongs.

Folks here on the ground tried many different approaches to discuss these problematic issues with the IWPA, but AUTOCRATIC LEADERSHIP by the Andrew Zaloumis management team at the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority (IWPA) did just as they please. This management team should be held accountable for their actions, and be criminally charged with crimes against the environment.

The panel of experts was tasked to hold stake holder engagement meetings, then generate a report on the way forward as far as estuarine management of the St. Lucia lake and connected estuarine rivers within the iSimangaliso  Park World Heritage site and surrounding areas is concerned. One of the panel members is a hydrologic specialist with deep level knowledge of waterflow and related  siltation load distribution factors. The rest of the team are mostly involved in socioeconomic studies, so we are hopefully on a good wicket, but ball tampering and damaged bats are an issue of concern. In the past those appointed by the minister have not played fair, and team selection was for party political purposes and not outcome driven.   Let's hope this team has been selected to achieve community engagement and good relationships between all role players. 

Let's hope that the panel of experts puts forward in their recommendations that  Andrew Zaloumis along with his management team need to be held accountable, and that criminal charges be laid against them for CRIMES AGAINST THE ENVIRONMENT which is now unable to support the ecological processes that ensure the natural renewable resources within lake St. Lucia and the St. Lucia estuary systems is functional and able to sustain the local economy of the area in question.

The Andrew Zaloumis management team has prepared the area for mining, the lake and estuary systems are silted beyond the point of no return, and now the only solution is to remove the silt load mechanically.

This problem was created by deliberately, and with criminal intent,  by passing the natural filter system of the Umfolozi Flats, and allowing the Umfolozi mud stream to drop it's silt load within the extreme northern sections of the lake, where nature can not create sufficient water flow volumes to scour the bottom of the lake and the rest of the St. Lucia estuary systems. 

What to do ?

 Which path to take? 

How can we solve these problems ?

Your views and comments will be helpful in establishing a better path forward. 

 Please share and ask others to share as well. We need diverse opinions and open minds to solve this rather nasty problem which was exacerbated by the Andrew Zaloumis management team at the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority, when they implemented the GEF PROJECT,  even after being warned of the drastic silt problems that would follow, which we now need to remove by mechanical means. 

The Andrew Zaloumis management team need to be held accountable for the biological and biodiversity collapse within the iSimangaliso Wetland Park World Heritage site. 

Looking forward to the next step along the path to restoring the functionality of the St Lucia Estuary and lake systems.

The #4u2fish campaign is greatful to our sponsors and those who made attending these meetings possible.

Black Hawk Security supplied transport to and from the meetings.

Accommodation in St Lucia supplied by Bundu Basher Inn 

Research and internet publication by Info4u and associates. 

Social media marketing by #Frankie2Socks and associates

IWPA IMP Emergency request for help

 The iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority, as the custodian of the Greater St. Lucia Wetlands Park World Heritage Site, Now called the iSimangaliso Wetland Park World Heritagge site is currently busy with their annual mandated review and update of their Integrated Management Plan or IMP.

This #MANDATED Integrated Management Plan is a very painful and disturbing experience for the majority of the folks living in and adjacent to the iSimangaliso wetland Park.  The IWPA or iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority have deliberately and with criminal intent side stepped the public participation process of these plans in the past, through political interference at the highest levels possible.

This IMP (Integrated Management Plan ) is supposed to be integrated into 

• all relevant local Municipalities IDP Process plans
• the Umkhanyakude District Municipalities IDP process plans
• The KZN provincial IDP process plans
• the NATIONAL IDP process plans 
  

In Terms of the ICMA or Integrated Coastal Management Act every estuary in South Africa should have an estuary  management plan in place, which should be registered with the IDP of the local municipality where any such estuary is found.

 Because each estuary is found in a local municipality, the Estuary management plan should by all rights be managed by that local municipality.

The St. Lucia estuary is however a very different story coz it falls into two local  local municipalities as well as the iSimangaliso Wetland park WORLD HERITAGE SITE, complicating things and adding frustrations to the St. Lucia Estuary Estuary management plan

It has thus become necessary to find a way to organise the various interested and affected parties and establish a single responsible entity to manage the St. Lucia estuary management plan. The 4u2Fish campaign has started working on this, and created a petition to the premier of KZN SOUTH AFRICA found here

https://secure.avaaz.org/community_petitions/en/Sihle_Zikalala_Premier_of_KZN_south_Africa_Support_the_4u2fish_campaign_in_our_efforts_to_restore_BIODIVERSITY_in_St_Lucia_Estuary/

Please consider signing this petition and sharing it further to your social media audience, asking them to sign and share again.

THIS IS NOW AN EMERGENCY ISSUE, AS THE ANNUAL ISIMANGALISO WETLAND PARK AUTHORITY INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT PLAN REVIEW PROCESS IS CURRENTLY UNDER WAY, and then I initial first round comments and Input session closesd on 31 October 2020

#Frankie2Socks for the #4u2fish campaign.

September 2020 update

 4U2FISH update 15 September 2020

We understand that this blog has been in-active, and the sole reason was #FINANCIALRESOURCES

Well that has been addressed, just a little, so you will soon be reading more about myself ( #Frankie2Socks )  and the many different efforts to get the issues of the closure of the St. Lucia estuary addressed at the highest levels, as the problems are diverse, plentiful and carry heavy financial burdens which the poorest of the poor are expected to bear the brunt of these costs. 

#PeepSee our petition here 

The primary issue here is the loss of economic opportunities associated with the natural renewable resources of Lake St. Lucia and surrounding waterways, which in the past sustained and supported  a very large rural population, before the state in the form of (1) the old NPB, then (2) in the form of the IWPA, and its allies, within the various different government departments, manipulated financial and socioeconomic information to mislead many different organizations and world bodies about the true situation on the ground.

Basically  the economies that were in place sustaining the rural populations around lake St. Lucia and interconnected waterways were ignored, then systematically destroyed, to ensure that the domestic tourism market, connected to the sustainable consumptive tourism associated with the natural renewable resources, within Umkhanyakude was removed from the equation.

In simple English  NO FISHING .... No tourism associated with fishing.... lots of job losses....

In my opinion this is all about control and management of the largest tourism attraction in KZN, the old #Maputuland Coastline, or the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, and the surrounding rural areas. Big tourism companies are pushing hard to exclude the domestic tourism market, and ensure that only the international market exists. National government is involved in this push for international tourism at the exclusion of the South African Domestic tourism market.

These are vastly complicated issues, where local folks have been vilified, and through efficient and effective  public perception management techniques, are currently perceived to be poachers, thieves and untrustworthy folks.  The folks on the ground need their dignity returned, and their rights in terms of section 24 as quoted here, need to be addressed.

Quote "Chapter 2, section 24 (b) iii  of the South African Constitution reads  as "Every one has the right to have the environment protected, for benefit of present and future  generations through reasonable legislative measures that secure ecological sustainable development and the use of natural resources while promoting justifiable economic and social development." end Quote

 

This stance needs to be tested at the constitutional court, so we need your support, mostly moral, coz if we have enough moral support, then financial support will flow like water.   the issue is to get the first 200 folks on board, then get them to assist by speaking about the problem, and asking others to #PEEPSEE and follow a hashtag or three (well just 2 #4u2fish and #reviveStLucia ) 

 

Please help this cause by sharing our posts and talking about the use of natural resources  within the sustainable tourism sphere of influence.

#Frankie2Socks @ Bird Island lodge on the #Nibela #Peninsula for the #ReviveStLucia campaign

The 4u2fish campaign needs your help

The 4u2fish campaign was brought to life with the intentions of creating a collection of politically acceptable platforms to tackle the many thorny issues around consumptive tourism within Umkhanyakude.  Now consumptive tourism is just a fancy way of saying tourism connected to hunting, fishing, harvesting of natural renewable resources and related àctivities.  Renewable resources is also just fancy terminology for wild life, fish, and the natural resources used within the local arts and crafts industry.

Help the 4u2fish campaign

Fishing, hunting and collecting natural resources are for some strange reasons,  seen as bad and unsavory pass times, which should be avoided, and thus the folks doing the hunting, fishing and harvesting of other natural renewable resources get an awful lot of bad or negative publicity. The 4u2fish team will have a primary focus on fishing and fishing related issues, but the stories around hunting and collecting of natural renewable resources used in the manufacture of arts and crafts will not be neglected, as this is a very important part, and a large one at that, of the Umkhanyakude district municipality's income generating base. The so called 4x4 ban ( #4x4ban ) changed this, when more than 20 000 job losses within the domestic tourism industry nearly bankrupted the Elephant coast tourism industry.

In the past, the Fisher folks, and their associated crews formed the çore base of the Umkhanyakude district municipality's tourism base.  These are the folks who put bums in beds, purchased arts and crafts, and generally kept the Maputuland tourism businesses afloat and making profit. The Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park Authority and its successor the IWPA ( iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority ) systematically and methodically changed the composition of this once very lucrative tourism market, and ensured that domestic tourism within Umkhanyakude collapsed and became insignificant.

Name changes and the restructuring of the management entities within Umkhanyakude has also contributed significantly to the economic collapse of our local and domestic tourism base. The Maputuland Coast became the Elephant Coast, then the same area became the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, causing confusion within the marketing industry. At the same time the iSimangaliso Wetland park Authority bullied  the local municipalities into submission, and then assumed many roles that should be managed and implemented by the local municipalities management teams.

This strategy has allowed the IWPA to do many nasty things, and the one that we as the 4u2fish management team are most worried about is the blatant mismanagement of the St. Lucia estuary and associated waterways. The knock on impact of a non functional estuary is rather disturbing, and extremely far reaching.  Whole communities have lost their source of income and can no longer sustain their lifestyles. The fish, prawns, reeds, grasses and other natural renewable resources are no longer available for domestic consumption, forcing folks to take other  survival strategies, becoming criminals in the process, due to protective legislations put in place by the IWPA.

 
Help the 4u2fish campaign  your financial contribution will allow the 4u2fish campaign to take up these issues at all levels.

The purpose of the 4u2fish campaign

The 4u2fish campaign is in place to assist the residents of Umkhanyakude district municipality with their public perception management strategies associated with fishing rights and related access rights to zones where harvesting of natural renewable resources (fishing) takes place within the iSimangaliso Wetland Park World heritage site.

Sunset jetty in St. Lucia KZN South Africa 

The 4u2fish campaign need these public perception management strategies in place to counter the bad reputation that fisher folks and other recreational beach users have acquired due to the attitudes, actions and activities of the many developers, especially within the environmental tourism industry, who are always on the lookout for cheap land in places where people gather for leisure activities. 

By giving fisher folks, and other harvesters of natural renewable resources a bad rap, these developers exclude the local community and put up developments that are not fisher folk friendly, which some how exclude the local population. These developments usually cater for the upper market, with a focus on international tourism and the trendy crowd, who are mostly arm chair environmentalists, with little practical exposure to real life environmental problems.

 
The primary purpose of the #4u2fish campaign is to generate public awareness of the problems and issues that impact on our collective fishing experiences, and then generate meaningful public discussions and conversations around our public awareness campaigns, events and activities with the intent on improving the domestic tourism markets. 

The intentions of the 4u2fish campaign is to improve domestic tourism associated with recreational beach use within the Umkhanyakude District municipality.

the 4u2fish campaign is primarily concerned with fishing within the iSimangaliso Wetland park, which includes but is not restricted to

• the Elephant Coast Beaches previously known as the Maputalnd Coast.
• Lake St. Lucia and the St. Lucia estuary systems
• The Umfolozi Flats and associated flood plains
• The Sodwana tourism Hub
• The Manguzi tourism Hub which includes Kozi bay
• The Hluhluwe tourism Hub with False bay, charters creek and Fanies island
• The St. Lucia tourism Hub
• The Jozini dam tourism zone

READ more about about the purpose of the 4u2fish project here

Our fishing rights within the iSimangaliso Wetland Park World Heritage Site is going to be a very serious political battle, but we will have the rural communities  of Umkhanyakude district municipality behind us, as all losses or erosion of fishing rights within the area have negative impacts on their livelihoods, and these are mostly due to the fact that these folks rely heavily on the domestic tourism market  for their survival.

tourists to Umkhanyakude spread their impact far and wide, starting by filling up with petrol, and then spreading out to these areas amongst many others

• accommodation and hospitality
• food and beverage
• guided tours
• nature / environmentally based
• culturally based
•  historically based
• arts and crafts shopping
• passing trade on roadside informal shopping

The economic knock on impacts of these infringements of our collective environmental rights as in #Section 24 of the South African Constitution are quite scary and a cause for immense concern within the northern reaches of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in north east KZN South Africa

For more information send an email to 4u2fish@info4u.co.za or do a #HashTag Search for #4u2fish using your favourite search engine.

Please leave your views in the comments below

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