Title:
Southern Africa’s Namaqualand daisies are flowering earlier: why it’s a red flag
Author:
Jennifer Fitchett
Associate Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
Published:
The Conversation, 13 January 2022
From the article:
In late August each year, the normally barren landscape of the Namaqualand, along the western boundary of South Africa, is transformed into a vista of brightly coloured daisies as far as the eye can see. The flowering of the Namaqualand daisies attracts close to 10,000 tourists per season to a part of the country that doesn’t get many visitors otherwise. But climate change poses a threat to the flowering event, and to the tourist arrivals which generate regional income.