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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 2020....
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...
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. Bonniedale...
SEA THE CHANGE – SPONSORSHIP FEEDBACK REPORT Submitted 31st May 2020 STC OVERVIEW 2020 February 1st – May 31st 2020 Oceans Research Foundation has received funds from Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve (GCBR) to support two learners participating in the ‘Sea the...
19 November 2019 "We are very grateful to the Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve for sponsoring our planting project: trees were collected from Renu-Karoo yesterday. Also thanks to Philip Esau at CapeNature Uniondale for organising spekboom cuttings.😀 Thanks to...