Archive for category: Renosterveld Centre

Since the opening of the new research centre at Haarwegskloof the place has been humming with activity, from students to researchers to guests from South Africa and beyond.

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The third meeting of the Overberg Lowlands Conservation Trust research group Renosterveld is one of South Africa’s most under-conserved vegetation types. Ploughing for agriculture is...

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We are running a crowd-funding campaign to raise money for the first-ever Visitor & Research Centre in renosterveld. The campaign starts on the 23rd March and will run for 40 days.

After six years of work and collaboration between the OLCT and the World Wildlife Foundation, the farm, Haarwegskloof, has been purchased and thus preserved into perpetuity. Just a few weeks ago the contract was signed declaring the OLCT managers of the property. This area of the Overberg (north of De Hoop) has been identified by many different surveys as an area of high conservation priority due to its high botanical diversity,

We are VERY excited to announce that WWF-SA has purchased the first piece of renosterveld in the Overberg and we, the OLCT, will be managing this land as a nature reserve. We also hope to establish a research centre on the land. This is the result of nearly five years of collaborative efforts between us and WWF and finally, we have our first piece of land, secured forever for conservation.