Pollination: Spring in the Overberg
Spring in the Overberg: A honey bee buzzes lazily over a field of yellow Canola while in the adjacent Renosterveld a butterfly flits gracefully through the warm air searching for a mate.
Rodents of the Renosterveld: A Research Update
One of the key aims at the heart of the Overberg Renosterveld Conservation Trust has always been the pursuit of greater knowledge about this Critically Endangered, little known and highly misunderstood vegetation type.
Taking Flight: Black Harriers, Renosterveld and the Overberg Lowlands Conservation Trust
The Black Harrier is one of Southern Africa’s most beautiful and charismatic birds of prey. It a graceful, medium sized charcoal-coloured bird with striking white markings, piercing yellow eyes and a long barred tail.
Watercourse Restoration Project is in full swing
The Watercourse Restoration Project is in full swing with surveys of priority watercourses within the Overberg wheatbelt. Spectacular renosterveld remnants have been incredibly productive with biodiversity surveys and GIS mapping being conducted over the past few...
Restoring the Overberg’s Watercourses: Beginnings of a New Project
Spring has sprung in the Overberg. The weather is growing warmer, plants are flowering in the Renosterveld and humming with a diversity of insect pollinators…
Conserving the Overberg’s Renosterveld: A new partnership with the Millennium Seed Bank
Renosterveld is one of the world’s most species diverse Mediterranean type shrublands. It is also one of the world’s most threatened ecosystems.