https://youtu.be/0XicuNjhAL8 We recently visited Nadine Hansen at her home studio in Geelkraans Nature Reserve, Still Bay, where she shared her creative inspiration with us and explained that “art is an incredible medium to help communicate what scientists are putting...
Author: Linda Fletcher “In every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks”John Muir The Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve (GCBR) spans over 3 187 893 hectares from Montagu in the West to Willowmore in the East, and Prince Albert in the North to Still Bay...
Message from the Chair As important participants in the Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve’s (GCBR) realm, we are excited to engage you in this newsletter to describe our plans for the next four years. This is on the back of a number of successful projects undertaken...
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,...
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...
Pick Up Litter. If every person picked up just one piece of litter today, there would be over 300 million fewer pieces of litter. If every person picked up 10 pieces of litter, there would be 3 billion fewer pieces damaging our environment. TAKE ACTION TODAY Every...
Maybe you’re not ready to part with plastic altogether, but there is some low-hanging fruit that can make a huge difference in reducing the amount of disposable plastic in your day to day life. Although recycling can help reduce the amount of garbage that ends up in...
Just like various modern products and technology, plastic has negative effects. The negative effects of plastic can be difficult to observe and may not appear to affect us directly, but plastic damages our planet and health. Globally, the world produces more than...
The plastic debris floating in the world’s oceans entangles wildlife, kills birds that swallow it mistaking it for food, and seeps into the food chain, showing up in fish that humans eat. A major threat to the ocean, this plastic pollution is estimated to cause...
As we are all aware and as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic and resultant implications, South Africa went into lockdown on 26 March 2020 and at the time of this article remained in lockdown, although under less strenuous restrictions. During this time, as in...