The theme for this year’s Earth Day is an end to plastic pollution.
It is almost unthinkable that humans would wantonly destroy our planet through the careless manufacturing and discarding of plastic waste, and yet we are pumping tons and tons of plastic into our ecosystems on a daily basis, endangering not only the wildlife that depend on these habitats but also our own continued existence.
Celebrating South Africa’s beautiful wild places seems like a good way to spend Earth Day 2018, but isn’t it sickening to imagine landscapes like these buried under heaps of trash?
Addo Elephant National Park scenery
Sunrise over the lagoon at the main camp in Agulhas National Park
Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve
Breede River in Bontebok National Park
Camdeboo National Park scenery
Leokop and a lone paperbark tree in Chelmsford Nature Reserve
Dinokeng Game Reserve Scenery
Ezemvelo Nature Reserve Scenery
Diepwalle Forest, Garden Route National Park
Rondevlei in the Garden Route National Park, seen from the hide
Tsitsikamma coast, Garden Route National Park
Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park
Ithala Game Reserve
Sunrise on the Eastern Shores, iSimangaliso Wetland Park
Fever trees in Umkhuze Game Reserve
Karoo National Park Landscape
The scenic route through Kgaswane Mountain Reserve
View from Ted’s Place on the Sweni Trail, Kruger National Park
Easter Sunday Sunset over Loskop Dam Nature Reserve
Mapungubwe National Park scenery
Lenong viewpoint is up there, at the towers, in Marakele National Park
Midmar Dam Nature Reserve scenery
Mokala National Park
Moreletakloof scenery
Scenery at Mountain Zebra National Park
Big herd of roan antelope on the floodplain at Vogelfonteinin Nylsvley Nature Reserve
View over the Oribi Gorge Nature Reserve from Oribi Gorge Hotel
Mankwe stream in Pilanesberg National Park
Scenery at Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden
Aloes in Queen Elizabeth Nature Reserve
Rietvlei Spruit in the Rietvlei Nature Reserve
Suikerbosrand scenery
Boulders scenery, Table Mountain National Park
Scenery at Cape Point, Table Mountain National Park
Giant’s Castle’s fresh mountain streams
Kamberg Nature Reserve
Reflections at Mahai, Royal Natal National Park
Mangroves lining the lagoon at Umlalazi Nature Reserve
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