Our Living Community - 23 July 2025

We start a hot new series this week on the brave volunteers who have to keep a cool head in hot conditions. They are the volunteers who make up the Volunteer Wildfire Services. Otto van der Walt spoke to Lee Kleynhans from the organisation about their origins and special training…

We're ending off our focus on the Freshwater Research Centre with a look at two of their projects that the public can get involved with. The first is a national database system of research data that is updated by the public, and that has been so successful that it is…

Our rivers and wetlands serve various important functions in the environment. But what would it cost us, in monetary terms, in rands and cents, to replace those functions with made-made solutions? In other words, if we didn't look after our rivers and wetlands, what would it cost us to install…

The Freshwater Research Centre has partnered with an international organisation called the Nature Conservancy in Africa, to monitor what effect the removal of invasive alien vegetation has on the rivers in the catchment areas that feed the Theewaterskloof dam. In this episode Kate Snaddon tells Otto van der Walt what…

Our Living Community is currently shining the environment spotlight on the Freshwater Research Centre. Co-founder Kate Snaddon spoke to Otto van der Walt about some of the projects they're currently working on.