Novel coronavirus reveals a green apartheid lurking in South Africa's cities as inequality in access to nature becomes visible during times of lockdown
FILE - In this April 22, 2015, file photo, children run to school in Alexandra township in Johannesburg, South Africa.
"Every human should have a right to green space," said Zander Venter, a spatial ecologist at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and lead author of"Not having this is a violation of human rights that started with colonialism and apartheid, and the government today has failed to redress this spatial inequality," Venter told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a phone interview.
The study found that "white" neighbourhoods are 700 m closer to public parks, have nearly 12 percent more tree cover and 9 percent more vegetation than areas with predominantly Black residents.
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