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Official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

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Tommy Trenchard

The rise of life-changing social circuses

30 May 2022
7 minutes

Zip Zap circus in South Africa is one of a growing number of 'social circuses' that are transforming the lives of marginalised youths In a squat concrete warehouse outside the national football stadium in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, the performers of the Tinafan Circus are busy practising their routines. A contortionist dangles gracefully from a hoop suspended from the … [Read more...] about The rise of life-changing social circuses

South Africa’s plant poaching epidemic

4 May 2022
10 minutes

In South Africa, a new wave of poaching has taken off – this time it isn’t big cats, elephants or rhinos in the firing line, but tiny succulent plants On 14 July 2015, Melita Weideman, a park ranger in South Africa’s Knersvlakte Nature Reserve, was sipping coffee at her home in the town of Vanrhynsdorp when she received an urgent phone call. Two trespassers had been seen … [Read more...] about South Africa’s plant poaching epidemic

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Published in the UK since 1935, Geographical is the official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).

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