What you can expect are hosts who think globally about sustainability. What you can experience is what they do locally. About places we support:
At Bartholomeus Klip, conservation co-exists with farming. Explore the unique blend of agriculture and conservation, and learn about the buffalo and quagga breeding projects on the farm. The nature reserve, a Conservation Project, with its characteristic fynbos and rare renosterveld vegetation, forms part of the Cape Floral Kingdom. It has been declared a National Heritage Site in recognition of its importance as the last major habitat of the geometric tortoise, one of the world’s rarest reptiles. The guest facilities are managed by the wives of men working on the farm.
Stay on a working ostrich farm in Oudtshoorn where the owner stopped farming in one paddock to make room for Meerkat research and a walking with Meerkats experience. Local people involved in the Meerkat and hospitality section using own farm produce for meats and salads. Stay in Plettenberg Bay where dedicated people restored the original fynbos area from the previously misused forestry business.
Support Kira at Ocean Safaris where each sea safari is a data sampling exercise and some of your money goes to local research on dolphins but where results are internationally shared and applied. Much awarded places like Grootbos and Farm215 known for their conservation of coastal and mountain fynbos and partnerships with local communities and gardening courses for local unemployed people.
Supporting Dyer Island Cruises and Marine Dynamic where part of your money flows to research on white sharks and jackass penguins and support their Nolwandle community craft project for producing and selling authentic products to tourists in the Gansbaai area. On the arid West Coast with its highly nutritional, cold, sea water you will learn about its gifts of sea food, farming. Stay and support individuals working pro actively for sustainable harvesting of the sea and sustainable farming. Their “Struggle” is not an individual one but really a community effort.
Farm Bakkrans is a special area for breeding and studying the Cape Mountain Zebra and is also home to the Cape Leopard Research Center. Funds are made available for students who wish to study the plants, animals and reptiles in the area. The area offers unsurpassed opportunities for recreation. In the primitive wilderness, one finds space and peace. Activities, which are compatible with the wilderness atmosphere, such as hiking and rock climbing, are encouraged.
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