When Dr Anthony Mapaura was a little boy, his father used to spend nights with him outdoors, trying to instil in him a love of the stars.Dr Mapaura was part of a four-person team stationed at 3 300 feet above sea level in the Maloti-Drakensberg to study the impact of climate change on alpine plant ecology. 

When most people are still tucked in bed, the wetlands are already alive with music.  For Toka Mosikidi, a PhD candidate in the UFS Department of Zoology and Entomology on the Qwaqwa Campus, this morning performance turns beautiful sound into valuable scientific data.