GCBR Micro Fund: Sowing the seeds of change and sustainability

Feb 2, 2022 | Micro Fund

Towards the end of last year the Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve (GCBR) provided funding for 20 organic vegetable-garden starter kits where 10 were donated to Gerrit du Plessis High School in Riversdale and the other 10 donated to 10 households in Railton,...

GCBR Micro Fund Report: Aloe claviflora population status monitoring project in Wolwekraal Nature Reserve

Oct 20, 2021 | Micro Fund

Background Wolwekraal Conservation and Research Organisation (WCRO) applied to the GCBR Flexible Micro Fund for funding to carry out a repeat survey of drought and porcupine damage to the Kraal Aloe (Aloe claviflora) population in Wolwekraal Nature Reserve. Funding of...

GCBR Micro Fund Research Grant: Ethno-Botany and Resource Economy of the Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve

Apr 12, 2021 | Micro Fund

Locations of the documented studies: Still Bay, Graaff-Reinet and Calvinia. Unlocking the economy of indigenous phytochemicals I understood the value of plants very early on in life. When 5 years old, I would walk the leafy suburban street where I grew up and picked...

GCBR Flexible Micro Fund

Feb 17, 2021

GCBR Flexible Micro Fund Does your community have a small initiative to improve the environment? Maybe the GCBR Flexible Micro Fund can help. THE FUND By providing small grants, the Flexible Micro Fund enables the GCBR Board of Directors to support voluntary...

GCBR Flexible Micro Fund Grant: Given Banda and the Ichnology project

Jan 25, 2021 | Micro Fund

Palaeo-Ecological Reconstruction The African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience (ACCP), Nelson Mandela University, is investigating numerous finds of preserved tracks and track ways of extinct animals, previously unrecorded extinct animals, animals which are completely...