Compiled by Donovan Kotze, 11 October 2021 For the Gourtiz Cluster Biosphere Reserve (GCBR), Riversdale Background Owing especially to its relatively low rainfall, the northern areas of the Langeberg mountains between Garcia Nature Reserve in the west and Ruitersbos Nature Reserve in the east support limited wetlands. However, the Kamma River catchment, which feeds the Gourtiz River 18 km north […]
The Kamma River lies below the northern slopes of the Langeberg mountains and it drains from East to West into the Gouritz River. It has the distinction of containing the only true peat wetlands in the Little Karoo but these wetlands are unfortunately under threat as a result of invasion by black wattle (Acacia mearnsii) and stinkbean (Paraserianthes lophantha). ReStory […]
Ken Coetzee – Conservation Management Services The community of Vanwyksdorp, a little agricultural village in the heart of the arid Little Karoo, was stuck in a status quo of depopulation of rural agriculture, unemployment, poverty, and helplessness. Vanwyksdorp has a good school but the situation was exacerbated by the annual exodus of school leavers, full of knowledge and expectations, only […]