Minister looks set to quash Tsitsikamma avo farm plan
Creecy moves to overturn application to allow for public participation and consideration of damning reports
Forestry, fisheries and environment Minister Barbara Creecy appears ready to overturn her 2020 approval of a proposal by forestry company Mountains to Ocean (MTO) to transform a tract of Tsitsikamma timber in the “Jurassic Park of insects” to avocado pear farming, after damning reports by two Eastern Cape-based scientists.
Mountains to Ocean applied to the minister in August 2019 to change the use of land in Lottering, Witels and Blue Lilly, previously consigned to timber, citing the damage done in the 2017/2018 fires and the need for the company to introduce an alternative crop to help them recover...
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