Professor Donovan Kirkwood, curator of the Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden, died after a fall during a conservation field trip in the Jonkershoek Nature Reserve on Tuesday, 26 August.
Rescue teams from Stellenbosch continued recovery work on the mountain on Wednesday Eikestadnuus .
Kirkwood was with colleagues and international visitors from the Cambridge University Botanic Garden and Amazon Horticulture when the group was surveying and collecting specimens of Penaea formosa , a critically endangered plant.