There's Hippos in Cape Town?! Why We Need to Reconnect With Nature | Ep159

From Hippos in Rondevlei to Caracals in your Backyard — Cape Town's WILD SIDE is closer than you think. 🦛🌿This week on Gen C Podcast, we sit down with Louise Matschke, Business Lead and spokesperson for Nature Connect, who traded a corporate banking career for a mission to reconnect South Africans with the nature on their doorstep. We unpack why our hippos moved from Ziekoevlei to Rondevlei, how invasive species are quietly reshaping our ecosystems, and why "Nature Deficit Disorder" might be affecting your kids more than you realise.We dig into the Green Economy, sustainable schools programmes turning learners into eco-warriors, and how green skills could be part of the answer to SA's youth unemployment crisis. Rizaan shares his theory of "spiritual surgery" - why time in nature heals more than just the body. Plus a wild Etosha story you don't want to miss.Then we play a round of Fact or Fake 🦓 (spoiler: female buffalo really do run the herd), touch on AI's role in conservation, and discover Inaturalist - basically Pokémon Go for Nature lovers.A rich, hopeful conversation about the wild spaces we've forgotten and how to find our way back to them.🔗 Connect with Nature Connect and subscribe to their newsletter, links below🎙️ Subscribe to Gen C Podcast for more real conversations, South African styleCHECK OUT NATURE CONNECT on: IG: https://www.instagram.com/natureconnectsa/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NatureConnectSA/LinkedIn: https://za.linkedin.com/company/natureconnectsawebsite : https://natureconnect.earth/Subscribe to the newsletter as wellFOLLOW GEN C on: Instagram 👉🏽 https://www.instagram.com/genc_pod/TikTok 👉🏽 https://www.tiktok.com/@genc_pod/🚨 Application link for ZAIO institute of Technology courses:👉🏽 https://applications.zaio.io/?referral=0NKG39M1 🚨 Unique GENC promo code: 👉🏽 0NKG39M1 get R1000 off any course of your choosing Ts an Cs apply For Business inquiries and Topics contact📧: [email protected] For Podcast Production and Studio Bookings contact 👉🏽[email protected] ‼️DISCLAIMER‼️: The information provided by the speakers/presenters on this Platform is for General Information purposes only