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Our Living Community - 3 December 2025

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We dive into a new organisation in this episode. These volunteers make sure that your time spent at any water body goes swimmingly. They are the NSRI. Otto van der Walt visited their station at Bakoven and spoke to their Media Manager, Andrew Ingram who spoke about how one woman's insistent letter writing brought the organisation into being.
3 Dec 2025 English South Africa Science · Nature

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