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Living on Faith in a Changing Climate
Leliefontein livestock herding The Leliefontein communal area is one of five communal areas in Namaqualand where livestock herding is still a common practice in a vast unfenced grazing lands. In these communal areas you will find many Nama herders with their dogs,...
TOWERLAND WILDERNESS
A venue beyond the ordinary Sue Davidoff and Allan Kaplan - founders, stewards and guardians of Towerland Wilderness - are opening this unique and beautiful wilderness home as an intimate venue for small gatherings and events. Whilst usually we able...
A Tribute to Mr Greg Moore
We are greatly saddened by the recent untimely passing of Mr Greg Moore, one of our keenest project supporters. Before even hearing about the GCBR and our Corridor Rehabilitation Project, Greg had been waging a ceaseless and thankless war against the black wattle and...
Bergfontein (near Albertinia) hack
This weekend outing is another opportunity to “hand back” to Nature in the beautiful Langeberg Mountains north of Albertinia. We will be clearing invasive alien hakeas immediately east of where we cleared in March 2020. This time we stay and work from the Bergfontein...
Conservation meet report for the Langeberg Hack
In a hack on Saturday 13 March, west of Bergfontein in the Langeberg mountains, we took on an aggressive Australian invader, hakea sericea, which is threatening extensive Mountain Fynbos biodiversity and water resources. The hack had an excellent turnout of 28...
A farmer’s tale
‘Fire’ is a word any landowner in the Southern Cape of South Africa knows and respects! In many cases fire management is a controversial topic amongst the diverse range of landowners and managers in the Gouritz Ecological Corridors Project area. The reality is that...
GCBR Micro Fund Research Grant: Ethno-Botany and Resource Economy of the Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve
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...
Stink bean Biocontrol
- it’s got a place in the Invasive Alien Plant management plan The Stink bean, also known as Australian albizia, Sirus and Stinkboon, is a fine bi-pinnate leaved evergreen shrub or tree growing 4-6 meters high. It somewhat resembles the Black Wattle (Acacia mearnsii)....
Sesbania Biocontrol
Healthy ecosystems connected to working landscapes are the foundation for clean air and water, fertile soil, and food production. They provide an immensely valuable role in buffering agriculture from the worst effects of climate variability and climate change, provide...
GCBR Flexible Micro Fund Grant: Given Banda and the Ichnology project
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...
GCBR Flexible Micro Fund Grant to Revamp Veld and Medicinal Gardens at the Fransie Pienaar Museum in Prince Albert
Upgrading of the Indigenous and Medicinal Gardens Wolwekraal Conservation and Research Organisation (WCRO), applied to the GCBR Flexible Micro Fund to support upgrading of the indigenous and medicinal gardens at the Prince Albert Tourism Bureau on the property of the...
The Goukou Nursery Chronicles
We’re going to build a Nursery we said … what a wonderful idea ... right ...? Little did we know... Read the full story here Location First, we had to find a location for the Nursery within our project area but it also needed a house for me to live in. Yah right ......