Our Living Community - 9 July 2025

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Various organisations working in the Table Mountain National Park have joined forces this week to launch a petition called Save Our Mountain. Otto van der Walt caught up with the founder of a previously featured organisation here on Our Living Community, Andy Davies from Friends of Table Mountain to find out what this petition is about.

9 Jul English South Africa Science · Nature

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