In May 2017 Sarah was invited by Dr Ali Halajian to talk to Biology and Zoology students at the University of Limpopo.
The talk was about the use of baobab fruit to support rural livelihoods and conservation of baobab trees. The students enjoyed the talk so much that they will be visiting Sarah in the near future to find out more.
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There’s a bit of a myth out there that you can tap water out of a baobab which is illustrated by this delightful cartoon. The truth is that a freshly felled baobab trunk weighs about 850kg per cubic meter. Once dried out, it weighs 200kg per cubic meter. This means that baobabs are able […]
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How are baobab flowers pollinated? It’s still a subject for considerable research and Nisa Karimi has been studying baobab flower pollination in the Limpopo area.
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Baobab wilding is about enrichment-planting of baobabs back into the wild. To prepare for this we are growing baobab trees from seed. Some are in dr Sarah Venter’s nursery at EcoProducts and other trees are being grown by community members in villages around Venda, oftentimes with precious available water in the arid environments where Baobabs […]
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