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TILL THE COWS COME HOME

“ South Africa is reputedly the second-most fenced place on Earth (after Texas), partly due to historic government grants aimed at reducing farm labour”

Driving north from Cape Town, the air gets brighter and warmer and cleaner as I climb out of the Boland onto the high, dry country of the Karoo. In Beaufort West I meet with Bool Smuts, CEO of the Landmark Foundation and guiding spirit of its ‘shepherding back biodiversity’ project. We drive north off the N1 and onto a dirt road

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