Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Fernkloof Nature Reserve”
The Hermanus Botanical Society has made a generous sum available to WCC for environmental education with a focus on Fernkloof Nature Reserve and fynbos biodiversity. We are most grateful for this commitment to educating the youth about our special floral heritage and what we need to do to protect it for the services it provides to us and for future generations.
The draft IMP is a good document that has been drawn up with a great deal of input from the Overstrand environmental staff and the Fernkloof Advisory Board. Your comments can make it even better, especially with regard to the types of development you would like to see or not see in the reserve.
All of us at Whale Coast Conservation were delighted and honoured to host Mr Sershan Naidoo, Beneficiary Relations Manager at the National Lotteries Board. The National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund has invested more than R4 million over 3 years in WCC to raise awareness of sustainable living and development in the Overberg region. Mr Naidoo was most encouraging about the …
One event you should not miss is the WCC exhibit “Exploring Energy” at the Hermanus Flower Festival from Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th September. The fabulous Fernkloof Nature Reserve is the setting for the Hermanus Flower Festival which this year pays tribute to botanical explorers, both past and present. These are the people who found and named the thousands of …
The importance of wetlands in providing essential eco-system services and the need to conserve SA’s third most threatened habitat was highlighted at the Hermanus Flower Festival. Whale Coast Conservation focused on the presence of frogs as an indicator of the ecological health of wetlands. Two of the YES students, Denfred and Zöhn, who have been participating with Sheraine in …
Whale Coast Conservation will be exhibiting at the Hermanus Flower Festival to be held in the Fernkloof Nature Reserve from 26 to 29 September 2013. The theme is wetlands and the WCC display will use a ‘wetland in a bottle’ to demonstrate how wetlands work and the essential ecosystem services they provide. Two of our YES students, Denfred and Zöhn, …
Simon Nicks is Managing Director of CNdV africa, a firm of urban designers, environmental planners and landscape architects. He has a B.Com. (Natal) and BAS MCRP MCPUD (Cape Town). He is a registered town and regional planner and a member of several planning and design institutes, councils and associations. He has worked on numerous urban planning projects with provincial and …
Belle Barker is the undisputed doyenne of Fernkloof Nature Reserve. Now in her 87th year, she still regularly walks the fynbos-clad mountains, imparting her amazing knowledge about fynbos to eager students, both young and mature. On a recent walk with her ‘botany group’ on Lemoenkop she was delighted to be shown the commemorative plaque that has been sited at the …
Whale Coast Conservation celebrated its 10th birthday AGM on Wednesday 17 October in the Green House. It was the first function to be held in our new premises and by all accounts it was a resounding success. The days leading up to the event were furiously busy. The renovation of the building took on new urgency with Jan scurrying around seeking and …