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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,...
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...
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 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...
GCBR Micro Fund Grant: Oceans Research Foundation
SEA THE CHANGE – SPONSORSHIP FEEDBACK REPORT Submitted 1st December 2020 Oceans Research Foundation received funds from the Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve (GCBR) to support learners participating in the ‘Sea the Change’ education and work readiness program in...
Gouritz Cluster Biosphere – Our Environment & Making a Difference
On the 3rd and 4th of September 2020, the GCBR marketing department had the opportunity to join some of our project managers on site to get a hands-on experience of what their projects entail. We also met the hardworking teams behind the work and had great...
Blombos Private Nature Reserve GCBR Flexible Micro Fund Recipient Report Back
In October 2019, Blombos Private Nature Reserve applied for, and received funding from the GCBR Flexible Micro Fund. The funding was granted for continued alien clearing of Rooikrans on the Blombos Private Nature Reserve. Blombos Estates (Pty) LTD (the holding...
Improving Wetland Health: Measure, Know, Manage
The Importance of Wetlands In recent ecological baseline assessments of the Gouritz Ecological Corridors Project area the importance and abundance of wetlands were highlighted as a key resource in a water constrained area. Wetlands, together with riparian zones,...
GCBR MICRO FUND BONNIEDALE FARM GRANT
GCBR MICRO FUND BONNIEDALE FARM GRANT Bonniedale is a 1,650 ha Fynbos farm owned by Nico and Danette Hesterman and is situated in the Attakwaskloof in the OuteniquaMountains between Mossel Bay and Oudtshoorn, surrounded by the Attakwaskloof Nature Reserve....
Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve Corridors Project
Palmiet Peatlands: Hidden Treasures Palmiet peatland wetlands, comprising mostly palmiet (Prionium serratum) vegetation, are confined to the coastal provinces of South Africa. Peatlands are wetlands in which the soil is rich in carbon and is made up of partially...