Species Hype
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SPEKBOOM is a drought-tolerant South African plant popularly known for sequestering (drawing down) carbon.
It has become all the rage. Many have seen the monetary opportunity in this movement, and are proposing mass plantings of the ‘wonder plant’ – with messaging like ‘Save the planet, plant spekboom!’
This is utter nonsense! Monoculture planting of anything is against the principles of nature and fails to create the safe and diverse spaces that threatened
