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May 4, 2012
Bonitas Sunday Tribune Giants Castle MTB Challenge
A Mountain Bike Challenge with a Conscience The 16th Bonitas Sunday Tribune Giants Castle Mountain Bike Challenge, one of the Bonitas Wild Series Events, was a hit yet again this year, with cyclists braving one of South Africa’s toughest one day biking events on Saturday last week. This epic 75km...
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April 26, 2012
Col’Cacchio offer a lifeline to Winelands Project
The 27th of October 2011 proved to be a life-changing day for Lesley Joemat, Wildlands Conservation Trust Initiative Manager, based at Spier in the Western Cape. This was the day that she, together with Charmaine Veldman – Programme Manager at Wildlands, received a cheque from Col’Cacchio pizzeria in order to...
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April 18, 2012
Eskom with an innovative approach to Biodiversity Stewardship
The Eskom ‘Ingula Pumped Storage Project’ is setting an example of how landowners can make use of the Biodiversity Stewardship process as a cost effective conservation mechanism. Through this project a protected biodiversity area and production are being expanded simultaneously – without either being compromised. A pumped storage scheme works...
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April 5, 2012
Big Ride Africa for Wildlands
After 15 458 km on the saddle, 176 days and 19 countries, an adventure and journey of a lifetime came to an end on Saturday 31 March, as James Lea-Cox and Mark Yetman rolled into the Cape Point car park to a huge welcome by friends, family and loved ones....
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April 3, 2012
Golden Horns
As of March 2012 135 rhino have been poached in South Africa. This is a frightening number considering we are only 3 months into the year. The increase in poaching incidents is being driven by the dramatic increase in demand for ground rhino horn in the East. The price of...
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April 3, 2012
Winterskloof Conservancy’s Green Bobbies start cleaning up Willow Lane
During the second week in March 2012 the “Green Bobbies”, trained by Sipho Mhlalanyawo of the Everton Conservancy, started clearing Willow Lane of invasive alien plants. The Green Bobby team members have learnt the techniques involved in clearing and are gaining expertise in identifying invasive alien plants. The team also...
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March 16, 2012
Rhino rule the square
March 16 The Michelangelo Hotel Ballroom, Nelson Mandela Square, Johannesburg Last night rhino champions put their money where their mouths were. Four ¾ life sized rhino painted by South African celebrities, exclusive travel packages and fashion savvy watches were auctioned in aid of the Wildlands Conservation Trust’s Rhino Conservation Project...
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March 15, 2012
Green-preneurs Rewarded for their efforts
On the 10th of March 2012, 5 Wildlands’ green-preneurs were rewarded with bicycles at Spier in the Western Cape (an award winning producer of wine), for growing between 300-600 trees in their local communities. Most of the recipients stay in informal settlements, and considering their average living space is 30m2...
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March 5, 2012
Inspiring Wildlands Development made possible by Lotto
In April 2011 the National Lotteries Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF) allocated R1 500 000 to Wildlands to build an 8 bed rustic camp in the Tembe Tribal area. Known as, Bhekula Lodge, it is situated in the sand forests adjacent to Tembe Elephant Park. The project got underway in October 2011 and...
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March 2, 2012
Karkloof children run for fun and a greener future
Children from four isolated farm schools in the Karkloof experienced a day of fun, in the hot February sun, with the Wildlands Conservation Trust and the Karkloof Conservation Centre last week. A hundred children from Grade 4-7 from Triandra, Gartmore, Hawkstone and Yarrow Primary Schools participated in the ‘3 Cranes...
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February 28, 2012
Schools rewarded for recycling efforts
On the evening of the 27th of February, local NGO, the Wildlands Conservation Trust, held the second annual Schools Recycling Awards Ceremony for their Wildlands Recycling initiative. The function was held at Deccan Road Primary School in Raisthorpe. Deccan Road Primary collected a staggering 35 628kg’s of recycling during 2011,...
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February 27, 2012
KZN Green Economy Conference
The provincial Department of Economic Development and Tourism hosted its first Green Economy Research Conference at the Durban ICC on the 24th and 25th of February, with the aim of promoting economic activities that promote sustainability whilst protecting the environment. A range of knowledgeable speakers from civil society, government, business...
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February 14, 2012
Trees and a Community Programme Grow side by side
The KZN Integrated Greening Programme was launched through a unique partnership between the KZN Provincial Government and the Wildlands Conservation Trust on the 1st of April 2011. This partnership was catalysed through the Sukuma Sakhe initiative, which aims to bring the communities of KZN together to “stand up and build”...
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February 3, 2012
Rhino Victory
Huge victory in the fight against rhino poaching Three rhino poachers, who were caught with two freshly chopped rhino horns, an assault rifle, a hunting rifle and an axe in the Kruger National Park, were sentenced this week to 25 years each by the Phalaborwa Regional Court. A SANParks spokesperson...
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