Eco Minute 13:30

BULLETIN 15 January 1:30 pm

Good afternoon, here is your Eco Minute:

# AfriForum in northern Gauteng says it will continue with its clean-up campaign in Pretoria north this year. Last week, the organisation started cleaning up parks including Jopie Fourie Park, by removing all the litter, trimming the grass, cutting down tree branches and clearing out landfills to make the parks accessible and safe again. AfriForum says a better and cleaner environment is the goal, vowing to continuously work on cleaning where the City of Tshwane cannot reach.

# The George Municipality in the Western Cape is urging residents not to eat shellfish from the sea. Red tide has been observed in the Garden Route with reports from Storms River Mouth, Plettenberg Bay, Swartvlei Beach, Kleinkrantz, Wilderness, Glentana up to Mossel Bay. The municipality’s spokesperson, Debra Sauer, says red tides are a natural phenomenon in coastal waters caused by a dense accumulation of microscopic algae. She adds that the appearance of red tide is expected to last for several days:

# And finally: A volcano has erupted in southwest Iceland with molten lava flows reaching the outskirts of a small fishing town, setting some houses alight. The town was evacuated earlier for the second time since November, due to fears an eruption was imminent amid heavier seismic activity. Reuters reports authorities say no people were in danger. Fountains of molten rock and smoke spewed from fissures in the ground across a wide area stretching to the town of Grindavik, where at least one house had caught fire, according to images provided by local media houses.

Stay tuned for more news………….