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 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 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...

GCBR Flexible Micro Fund Grant to Revamp Veld and Medicinal Gardens at the Fransie Pienaar Museum in Prince Albert

Jan 14, 2021 | Micro Fund

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...

GCBR Micro Fund Grant: Oceans Research Foundation

Dec 4, 2020 | Micro Fund

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....

Blombos Private Nature Reserve GCBR Flexible Micro Fund Recipient Report Back

Oct 5, 2020 | Micro Fund

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...