Round Up, a herbicide in Kirstenbosch, The National Botanical Gardens?

Kirstenbosch, our National Botanical gardens in CapeTown, South Africa, is being sprayed with Round Up.
Round Up is a product of Monsanto, a broad spectrum herbicide with the active ingredient glysphosphate.
Round Up has not been proven 100% safe for humans or our environment.
There have been severe health impacts on the environments and people who repetitively come in close contact with this chemical.
So what happens to that clean spring water we drink? Or the different species in that area? And to those who habitually walk barefoot with their children through the gardens?
Documentary filmmaker Renée Scheltema meets Nirmala Nair, of the School of Practical Sustainability, during the filming of her Environmental Feature Documentary.
A taste of what’s to come:
www.MakingOfTheFuture.com

[@anthonyposemann5960]

How/where can we sign the petition and support a campaign to put a stop to the use of Roundup?

[@ReneeScheltema]

and by the way: The chemicals do not just persist in the soil (killing insects) but after the rains they are washed into rivers, and ponds. In other words, they not only stick around, they migrate far beyond the fields they are intended to treat.

[@ReneeScheltema]

Spread the news!! Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens using toxic herbicide, RoundUp!

[@ItsTheMojo]

It's a herbicide. By definition it's toxic.

[@ReneeScheltema]

yep! All toxic, herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers must be banned!
Did you watch the BBC news today? 50 % of all wildlife is gone:(

[@ItsTheMojo]

Renée Scheltema
I.e. all herbicides and pesticides must be banned. Organic or not, regardless of who manufactures them. Along with just about everything else, of course, since pretty much everything involves some level of toxicity that is introduced to the environment and/or to humans.

[@ReneeScheltema]

The estate manager confirmed that they use "Kleenup", the active ingredient in Kleenup is also Glyphosate, they use the different name and registration as a cover up for the active ingredient. All toxic pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers need to be banned!!
Did you see the BBC headline news today? 50% of all wildlife has disappeared.
We're killing ourselves for money, so that Kirstenbosch looks "CLEAN".
Ratpoisen, etc should be banned too. What do you think happens to the birds eating poi nosed mice and rats? In the Netherlands, where I was born, birds are declining in proportion with neonicotinoid levels in waters. Many birds are on the brink of extinction.
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man." -Einstein

[@ReneeScheltema]

Just calling something enviro does not necessarily make it safe or green.
www.enviro-crop.co.za/product-type/herbicides/
Kleen UpL5835 Active: Glyphosate 360 g/ℓ
A post-emergence, non-selective, systemic herbicide for the control of annual and perennial weeds and grasses.

[@ReneeScheltema]

Pop. of Monarch butterflies has fallen 90% in large part because of the weed killer glyphosate (aka Roundup) j.mp/1tXdiwH

[@ItsTheMojo]

This entire video is pretty much a lie or at least deliberately misleading. Notice that the actual response from SANBI (that they don't use Roundup, but something called Kleenup. While Kleenup also includes glyphosate it is not the "registered name" of Roundup and is not a Monsanto product) is not mentioned. The shot of the Roundup label in the video could be from anywhere. If it's really from Kirstenbosch, why not show it in a wider view to prove that Kirstenbosch is using or has used Roundup? No evidence is presented indicating that the herbicide is getting into ground water - opening a bottle in a stream doesn't equal evidence of glyphosate in the water. Those trees with "brown spots"? I have two in my garden, I don't use Roundup or any other herbicide and, guess what? That's what those trees do - as the higher fronds grow, the lower ones brown and die. And the "weeds are plants too" bit? So she'd be quite happy to walk around the gardens overgrown with weeds? Presumably she also just allows the weeds to grow in her own garden. Farmers should do it to. Ignore the fact that the weeds use up water and nutrients needed by the crops. Weeds are plants too, so just let them grow.
While the workers may have said that, as a precaution, one shouldn't walk barefoot immediately after they've sprayed, unless there are open wounds no significant amount of the herbicide is going to make it through the skin.