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Article: Development gets green light despite threat to birds; Northgate will be built right next to SA's only lesser flamingo breeding site.(News)
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- The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
- Article date:
- November 16, 2008
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BYLINE: Eleanor Momberg
The controversial Northgate township development on the banks of Kimberley's Kamfer's Dam, the only breeding site for lesser flamingos in South Africa, will go ahead.
The record of decision for the construction of a shopping mall, about 4 000 houses and flats in secure complexes, churches and schools was issued by the Northern Cape department of tourism, environment and conservation on November 7.
The decision comes amid controversy about the development and its impact on the flamingo colony, which is already suffering from a variety of diseases caused by pollution and human effluent spilling into the dam from the town's ...