The coastline of South Africa, stretching 1,740 miles (2,800 ... I went farther west, to the heart of the Benguela kingdom, to see the kelp beds and penguin colonies of Cape Town.

The kelp forests off the southern tip of South Africa are fed almost constantly by two vast deep sea currents which deliver nutrients year round. As a consequence they are incredibly productive ...

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South Africa’s Marine Protected Reserves (MPRs) are some of the very best in the world. In fact, tourists and conservationists travel from all over the globe just to visit the Marine Protected ...

We begin in the oldest desert on earth – the Namib in south west Africa. A pair of ostriches ... the sun fuels forests of giant kelp. It is a dangerous place for young horn sharks as giant ...