Who were the people behind the street names in the Karoo?
The history behind these older names provides a record of how communities in the Karoo began.
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La Niña on the horizon: what a wetter summer could mean for the Karoo
While the visual impact of this greening is often celebrated, it also brings secondary challenges.
Why you should take your December holiday to the Karoo
A Karoo summer retreat invites the pleasure of doing very little and noticing everything.
The poetry of place names
These names stitch the Karoo’s past to its present and bind heritage to its geography.
The plants that drink fog
The Karoo’s fog-drinking plants show how life adjusts to scarcity with grace and ingenuity.
Roots of the Karoo house
The Karoo house endures because it belongs so completely to its environment.
Tracking the survival of the riverine rabbit and other rare species
The story of the riverine rabbit is, in many ways, the story of the Karoo itself.