Welcome to our Biosphere Reserve!
Biosphere reserves are ‘learning places for sustainable development’. They are sites for testing interdisciplinary approaches to understanding and managing changes and interactions between social and ecological systems, including conflict prevention and management of biodiversity. They are places that provide local solutions to global challenges. Biosphere reserves include terrestrial, marine and coastal ecosystems. Each site promotes solutions reconciling the conservation of biodiversity with its sustainable use.
Biosphere reserves are nominated by national governments and remain under the sovereign jurisdiction of the states where they are located. Biosphere Reserves are designated under the intergovernmental MAB Programme by the Director-General of UNESCO following the decisions of the MAB International Coordinating Council (MAB ICC). Their status is internationally recognized. Member States can submit sites through the designation process.
In order to assist the stakeholders with the designation process, as well as periodic reviews, Technical Guidelines are being progressively created by the MAB International Co-ordinating Council.
Become a Member
Working on environmental issues.
We have worked passionately this past decade to build the foundation for a credible, structurally sound and globally recognised organisation, with proven results.
Strategically, we believe that our endorsed credibility of the past decade, now provides the foundation, to invite you, to become a member of not only our dream, but a sustainable enterprise, that has been accredited by global nations.
There are multiple membership categories, each have a defined value. Most of us have an interest that resonates with the environment or community effort, thus our passion is underwritten by emotion and we join with philanthropic motivation (public and donor membership).
We have developed a unique value offering for commercial enterprise and project sponsorship, providing real values of : environmental guidance, socio-economic legislative alignment, cross marketing and network benefits, advisory assistance
- Living alongside nature
- Biodiversity wellbeing
- Sustainable living
Trials
Eve’s Trail
The Darling Stagger
The Five Bay Trail
The Wheels of Time
Book one of our breathtaking trials
Our Projects
In 2019, the Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve (CWCBR) was allocated an alien clearing project with the Department of Environmental Affairs, Forestry & Fisheries’ (DFFE) NRM Programme. This project (which was interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic) stretched over a period three years which will end in 2022. The project currently employs approximately 72 people from previously disadvantaged backgrounds. Over the three-year period, approximately 2300 initial hectares and 1025 of follow hectares of Alien vegetation was removed from critically important ecosystems. We are inviting partners for future alien clearing projects.
- Environmental Education and Awareness in Saldanha
- Natural Resource Management Land User Incentives Project
- Our 20 year celecration
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CWCBR Coins
Our Team
Experienced Guides
