All eyes on Olifants as experts search for answers

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One of the country’s hardest working rivers, the Olifants River, which flows through Mpumalanga and Limpopo on to Mozambique, has been subject to prolonged and cumulative ecosystem stress as a result of human activities in the catchment. While the river’s plight first caught the attention of the public following the death of hundreds of crocodiles in the Loskop Dam and downstream in the Olifants River gorge situated in the Kruger National Park two years ago, its problems go back a lot longer than that. (For more on the crocodile deaths, see the article in the January/February 2009 issue of the Water Wheel).

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