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Planning A Trip To Kirstenbosch

editor — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 06:36:00 +0000

From 1990 to 2010, visitor numbers increased from 400 000 to 750 000 per year. Annual income (admission fees, rentals, plant sales) increased from half a million in 1990 to R30.6 million per year in 2010. Garden expenses (excluding research and education, which are separately funded) increased during the same period from R2.4 million to R28 million. Garden operations were subsidised by government to the tune of 86 per cent in 1990, but by 2010 were producing a meaningful profit – on a much larger financial base. The most striking change was in the expenditure per individual visitor, which increased

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How To Plan A Trip To Kirstenbosch

editor — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 22:43:00 +0000

These large specimens of Encephalartos woodii, severely damaged by bark removal, were photographed in 1918 at Ngoye, Natal, the last specimens known in the wild. Cycads, their ancient origins and their present precarious situation have attracted scientists to Kirstenbosch from the Garden’s establishment to the present day. Cycads are the oldest of seed plants, having survived three of the Earth’s mass extinction events, found through 280 million years of the fossil record. Globally, fewer than 400 species of cycad are still living. Perched as they are on the edge of extinction, most of South Africa’s 38 species are represented in

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