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Being Green - 12 MAY 23_Dr Gabriella Leighton, co-ordinator of UCT’s Urban Caracal project.

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In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook, speaks to Dr Gabriella Leighton, co-ordinator of UCT’s Urban Caracal project, and co-author of a new study which has found that those wild cats that live on the urban edge of Cape Town have metal pollutants in their blood, a huge red flag for the environment on the peninsula.
12 May 2023 English South Africa Health & Fitness

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