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Article: Suspended bird boffin fights back.(News)
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- The Saturday Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2008
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BYLINE: Sheree Bega
Suspended bird expert Mark Anderson has been granted a temporary interdict against a disciplinary hearing set by Northern Cape environmental authorities.
The Department of Tourism, Environment and Nature Conservation in the province last month placed the specialist nature conservation scientist on "precautionary suspension", along with two of his senior colleagues.
It said this related to complaints it had received about their objection to a proposed R2-billion residential development opposite South Africa's only breeding site for lesser flamingos at the Kamfers Dam in Kimberley, as well as their concerns about raw sewage ...