Eco Minute

BULLETIN 26 August 1:30 pm

Good afternoon, here is your Eco Minute:

# The Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency says six lions are currently being monitored and seem to have settled well in the Kruger National Park. The agency’s spokesperson, Simphiwe Shungube, says the animals could not be moved back to the Riverside farm in Malelane where they came from as they had been chased away by new male lion coalitions and would have been killed or escaped again, posing a risk to communities:

# The City of Cape Town says the establishment of Catchment Management Forums will improve inland water quality. The Diep River Catchment Management Forum has recently been established, with its immediate priorities being on identifying social and environmental factors negatively affecting river management. Mayoral committee member for Water and Sanitation, Zahid Badroodien, says the forum is also tasked with finding solutions to the urban, agricultural, commercial and industrial pollution which ends up in vital watercourses:

# And finally, a tourist has died and two more are missing after an ice cave collapsed during a tour group visit to a glacier in Iceland. The incident occurred when a group of about 25 foreign tourists from various countries were exploring the glacier in the south of the country. One person was severely injured. Authorities say efforts to transport equipment and personnel up to the glacier have proven difficult due to the rugged terrain, and cutting through the ice was mostly done by hand with chainsaws.

Stay tuned for more news………….