This weeks trivia is number 30 and we want to use the opportunity to raise awareness of a sad little known fact. Cape Town leads the world in terms of species that are threatened with extinction or extinct. Some 13 plant species that used to occur in Cape Town are now globally extinct in the wild. A further 306 of Cape Town’s plant species, and 27 of its animal species, are in immediate danger of extinction. It is not in the tropics that the greatest concentration of threatened species occurs, but in Cape Town.Read More
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