Wild

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Collecting all the water from the Matakitaki, Matiri, Gowan, Maruia, and Mangles Rivers, and fed by Lake Rotora and Lake Rotoiti in Nelson Lakes National Park, the Buller is the big water river of the region. It can hold a LOT (!) of water. During th

How It Works

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Whether they gush dramatically down a rock face or subtly slip through the landscape, the transportation of water in rivers is essential to many life forms on Earth. Rivers are natural channels of water that carry surface freshwater to seas and lakes

BBC Countryfile Magazine

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Sara Maitland is a writer who lives in Dumfries and Galloway. Her works include A Book of Silence and Gossip from the Forest “The ecological health of British rivers is, frankly, deplorable and getting worse. Just one example: the Wye, which flows f

Kayak Session Magazine

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The Ötztaler Ache - "the Ötz" - is Austria's largest free-flowing glacier river; 13% of its catchment is covered by glaciers! They are the most important water source for the valley in summer as the valley receives little precipitation. In 2005, Olaf

New Internationalist

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165 major rivers in the world, according to most estimates. Minor rivers (many of which are tributaries) number in the thousands. 64% of rivers >1,000km in length are no longer free-flowing.1 <10% of river basins are protected by law. 2 263 transboun

How It Works

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The dominant colour of water has changed in a third of the major rivers in the US over the last 35 years. This satellite image shows the hues of the nation’s waterways as seen by the human eye. Natural changes to the colours of rivers are common due

Kayak Session Magazine

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Rivers know no human-defined boundaries. They trickle, meander, flow, and thunder through whatever the topography and geology allow. We draw shapes on maps to help define the land surrounding our rivers. Yet across the United States, federal and stat

You South Africa

9 min read

AT FIRST many people assumed our motivation was political. After the debut of Juluka in 1979 I would spend a lot of time explaining that, initially, it had nothing to do with politics. I didn’t go looking for politics. Politics found me. More than an

Getaway

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Pandora Long’s voice was full of horror. In August 2019, a giant tank of vegetable oil collapsed, felling another tankful of caustic soda at the Willowton Group factory in Pietermaritzburg. Containment barriers failed to stop 1,6 million litres of po

Trapper & Predator Caller

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I’m standing on the bank of the Ohio River. With all of the dams it’s more like a chain of lakes than a river. The shoreline is sand and mud. There is a peculiar phenomenon that occurs where any small tributary empties into the river. When the river

Landscape Architecture Australia

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Jock Gilbert and the RMIT Landscape Architecture program have been building a relationship with Culpra Milli Aboriginal Corporation (CMAC) through projects on Culpra Station since 2014. The projects arise from this relationship and aim to address the

Guardian Weekly

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The herons and little egrets have already begun to hunt in the muddy shallows and the hope is that within a few years rarer wading birds such as curlew and mammals including otters and harvest mice will appear. But the project to allow river water fr

Farmer's Weekly

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Western Cape MEC for agriculture Dr Ivan Meyer recently handed over the Meerlustkloof and Meul river projects near Genadendal in the Overberg region to the Zonderend Water Users’ Association. Meyer said in a statement that the rivers were important t

Fishing World

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MANY years ago, I was a hunter and a sport fisherman. The fishing bit was easy compared to the hunting. Finding access to properties that we could hunt on was always difficult. We had a good sheep property out near Cowra that was full of rabbits and

Kruger Magazine

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« Joep Stevens is a keen historian who was introduced to the Kruger National Park by his parents in 1966. This ignited his interest in and passion for the Park. Balule (24,054001S 31,733013E) – the quaintest of camps where time has stood still In

Bassmaster

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IT’S UNDERSTOOD THAT the ageless angling axiom “grass equals bass” implies no lack of opportunity on rocky, woody lakes where bass have never established vegetation-centric patterns. However, when lakes once thick with hydrilla, milfoil, eelgrass and

Los Angeles Times

6 min read

Hidden away in the heart of the Deep South, one of the nation's greatest wildernesses is being destroyed, bit by bit, in a silent massacre. You won't find people chaining themselves to trees to protect this place, or national environmental groups usi

Backpacker

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By Will McGough TWO RIBBONS OF WATER, including one taller than 30 feet, fill the pool I’m floating in. I lean back on my sleeping pad to take in the panorama: the waterfalls, the river coursing down the valley, the foothills full of wild guava, avoc

Farmer's Weekly

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It is quick, easy and cheap to damage natural water resources, but difficult and expensive to rehabilitate them. “The highest priority when it comes to river management should therefore be to avoid this damage in the first place,” says soil conservat

Wilderness

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THE ST JAMES STATION was farmed since 1862 but when it was retired in 2008, the stunning scenery, mountain ranges and cool clear streams, rivers and lakes were encompassed into the 78,000ha St James Conservation Area. The park fits snugly between the

Adventure Magazine

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The East Coast of the North Island is a remote, relatively untracked, and infrequently visited area except for the multitude of hunters who jealously guard their access and favourite spots. It is bounded to the west by Te Urewera (formerly national p

Kayak Session Magazine

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In the early and mid 20th century, many of Scotland's larger rivers were dammed for hydroelectric power. Dams were built on salmon spawning rivers on the condition that water would be released intermittently through the summer months to simulate the

Kayak Session Magazine

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The East Lyn, though lesser-known outside Great Britain, is a British classic: low volume, steep, reliable, and jaw-droppingly beautiful. The river flows eight kilometers from its source to the sea, 250 m below, where a glorious point break can be fo

Wilderness

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There was a pleasing symmetry to the Chute, but it did little to mask the menace implied by the short stretch of water where steep rocky walls squeezed the entire flow of the Clarence River into a four metre-wide channel. Or the jagged fang of rock d

Futurity

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Only about one-third, or 37 percent, of the world’s 246 longest rivers remain free-flowing, according to a new study. Dams and reservoirs are drastically reducing the diverse benefits that healthy rivers provide to people and nature across the globe.

Independent on Saturday

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THERE could be more crocodiles in lagoons around Durban than meet the eye. “They are very secretive creatures. The chances are that if one was seen somewhere, there would be more in that place,” reptile expert Neville Wolmarans told The Independent o

Adirondack Explorer

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On a bank of the Ausable River’s West Branch, just upstream of its confluence with the East Branch in Au Sable Forks, this spring’s high water deposited a large twisted sheet of rusted steel, looking like a beached whale, opposite the Tahawus Cultura

TRAIL

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The best way to avoid being maimed or killed by a flash flood is not to be in one. This means knowing the climate of the area. The Drakensberg has its dry season from April to July, so a Summer trip is ill-advised. Gavin Raubenheimer (Search & Rescue

Futurity

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The amount of ice in the Earth’s rivers has declined rapidly over the past three decades, and the trend is likely to continue, researches report. Rivers that seasonably freeze over drain more than a third of the Earth’s land mass. Examining more than

Kayak Session Magazine

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Crossing into Ecuador from Colombia by bus at the end of 2003, the bus sprang a leak in the diesel line, and the lubricated rear tires sent us into a sideways slide towards a jungle abyss. In slow motion toward certain doom, I had time to think, "Ecu