Conservation At Work

The Western Cape Umbrella Association For Conservation of Private Land

Cape Fox Awards 2025

The 2025 Cape Fox Awards highlighted the power of individual commitment, collective effort, and innovative partnerships to tackle the urgent biodiversity challenges of our time. From community-led restoration projects to landscape-scale corridors, these initiatives prove that conservation on private land is essential to securing South Africa’s natural heritage.
As the symposium concluded, one message rang clear: collaboration and connection remain at the heart of protecting South Africa’s biodiversity—from catchments to coast.
The symposium and awards were made possible with the generous support of The Table Mountain Fund, and The Fynbos Trust.

2023 Symposium – Conservancies and landowners can help change nature’s trajectory.

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.

The Western Cape takes home the Aardvard Award for best performing Province

The Western Cape awarded for their conservation efforts With the high level of species diversity and endemism, the Western Cape is an area of high conservation importance. Most of the remaining natural areas in the Western Cape fall under private landownership. The conservation efforts of these landowners are thus of great importance. Conservancies are recommended […]

NACSSA 10th Anniversary Conference

Dusty Sunset Event Date: 13th September 2013 – 1:00 pm to 15th September 2013 – 10:00 am The National Association of Conservancies and Stewardship South Africa Annual General Meeting and conference is taking place in Cullinan in September 2013. Various speakers attending provide valuable conservation information. The conference hosted by the Gauteng Conservancy Association and […]