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Wonderful wood ENDANGERED
My wood is light yellow to whitish The depletion of tthuersneorfatrheeatnwdebnetaieutthifcuelnttrueerys.
in colour, durable, and smells had begun at the
wonderful. Like many other trees,
I have male and female cones on
my branches. The male cones are
very small while the female ones
are much bigger. Together, they
produce seeds, which live in the
female cones for three years on the
tree and then are dispersed in the
nearby soil to grow further into
new trees.
Fading glory Did you know?
With human settlement came The Cederberg Mountains are
exploitation. When Europeans named after the Clanwilliam
came, they started logging my cedar, as it was once abundant
family heavily to make furniture,
ships, telegraph posts, and so in the range.
on. To be able to regenerate, my
family requires small fires, but
high-intensity fires can kill us.
Two such big fires—one in 1989
and another in 2002—deeply
reduced our numbers.
Don’t let Clanwilliam die
Humans started making efforts to
protect us as early as the beginning
of the nineteenth century but heavy CR
fires prevented our populations from ENDANGER ED
recovering. In 1987, the Cape Nature
Conservation created the Cedar Reserve EN
to protect us by controlling the fires and
growing seeds artificially and planting
TaChreeeadCeolrfabnaebwrogiulMltia2om5u0ncsteaqdiunaarsr,iesSokcouilntohfminAeetfdrreictsoai.nanthe them. If this programme doesn’t run VU
successfully then my family is likely to
become extinct.
My wood is light yellow to whitish The depletion of tthuersneorfatrheeatnwdebnetaieutthifcuelnttrueerys.
in colour, durable, and smells had begun at the
wonderful. Like many other trees,
I have male and female cones on
my branches. The male cones are
very small while the female ones
are much bigger. Together, they
produce seeds, which live in the
female cones for three years on the
tree and then are dispersed in the
nearby soil to grow further into
new trees.
Fading glory Did you know?
With human settlement came The Cederberg Mountains are
exploitation. When Europeans named after the Clanwilliam
came, they started logging my cedar, as it was once abundant
family heavily to make furniture,
ships, telegraph posts, and so in the range.
on. To be able to regenerate, my
family requires small fires, but
high-intensity fires can kill us.
Two such big fires—one in 1989
and another in 2002—deeply
reduced our numbers.
Don’t let Clanwilliam die
Humans started making efforts to
protect us as early as the beginning
of the nineteenth century but heavy CR
fires prevented our populations from ENDANGER ED
recovering. In 1987, the Cape Nature
Conservation created the Cedar Reserve EN
to protect us by controlling the fires and
growing seeds artificially and planting
TaChreeeadCeolrfabnaebwrogiulMltia2om5u0ncsteaqdiunaarsr,iesSokcouilntohfminAeetfdrreictsoai.nanthe them. If this programme doesn’t run VU
successfully then my family is likely to
become extinct.
