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Water quality and quantity the key to healthy estuaries
Feel the Summer Breeze with CapeNature!
SA's commercial shark industry - are sharks friends or food?
Tranquillity and solitude in the heart of the Garden Route - a visit to Goukamma Nature Reserve
World Wetlands Day 2021
The bontebok - a species saved from the brink of extinction
Fish migrations: they would swim 500 miles and they would swim 500 more
Job creation and poverty alleviation: CapeNature's role
CapeNature manages around 6% of the Western Cape, with the biggest area falling in mountainous areas, and runs various job creation programmes in partnership with other role-players. Find out more about its projects below.
From disability grant recipient to admin assistant
Before joining the Jonkershoek Reserve outside Stellenbosch as an administration assistant, Patrick Makuliwe was living on a disability grant and struggling to make ends meet. His job at the nature reserve means he is able to provide for his family – and has access to useful training that will stand him in good stead in future.
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Award-winning project helps develop local contractors
CapeNature’s long-standing and successful Goukou-Duivenhoks wetlands project has created 55 jobs for people from the nearby Hessequa towns of Heidelberg and Riversdale – and won numerous South African National Biodiversity Institute awards.
Wetlands work benefits natural resources while creating opportunities
Creating jobs while managing natural resources translates into a win for both the environment and local people. The 10-year rehabilitation project of the Verlorenvlei wetlands on the West Coast achieved this and more. Read more here: [LINK]
Building better futures on the Garden Route
Job creation. Skills development. Career success stories. These are some of the great results CapeNature’s Keurbooms EPWP project has yielded for local communities.