The Western Cape Umbrella Association For Conservation of Private Land
Event Date: 26th August 2014 (All day)
All landowners & conservancies of the Overberg Area are invited to The Annual Overberg Training Day 2014
TIME & DATE: 9h30am -16h30, TUESDAY 26 AUGUST 2014
PLACE: Van Brakel Stoor, at crossroads with R326 to Stanford and R316 to Caledon
Please RSVP by 22 August 2014 ( as seats are limited)
Contact: Ingrid du Plessis
Telephone: 028 316 2774 / conservation.at.work@gmail.com
Conservation at Work in collaboration with CapeNature, Jobs 4 Carbon, Table Mountain Fund, Western Cape Department of Agriculture, Landcare, Rooiberg Breede River Conservancy, and VanWyksdorp Development Institute (VDI) hosted a successful Landowners Day investigating the practical implementation of erosion control measures in the field. The Jobs 4 Carbon project launched in 2014 and has a remarkable impact on the lives of the local community creating 60 jobs while restoring degraded veld in the Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve by planting spekboom, clearing alien invasive species and preventing soil erosion through ponding. A total of 312702 spekboom plants were planted between 2018-2023 as part of the restoration of degraded spekboom thicket.
People are putting the earth – especially the natural world – under considerable pressure. And it will be up to us, from conservationists, to conservancies and private landowners, to change the course from our current trajectory.
This was the message at the Conservation At Work Symposium, hosted at the Graham and Rhona Beck Skills Centre in Robertson on 31 August and 1 September 2023. The symposium was attended by conservation organisations and authorities, conservancies, and individual landowners.
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