Simbarashe Ndhleve

In the rugged and mountainous Drakensberg grasslands of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, farmers rear sheep for food, cultural practices and financial security. The steep slopes, cold winters, frost and seasonal droughts shape everyday farming life. In contrast to commercial farms with large fenced properties and hundreds of animals, families in the area’s communal villages typically own small flocks of around 10 to 50 sheep.

Across the world, climate governance bodies are finding ways to capture greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere and store them in a place where they can't escape and warm up the planet. This is known as carbon capture and storage. It's in meeting the global goal of net zero: eliminating all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Forests and grasslands perform carbon storage by sucking carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from the air and storing them underground.