"It is surely our responsibility to do everything within our power to create a planet that provides a home not just for us, but for all life on Earth."
Sir David Attenborough
The Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) has set a target of protecting 30% of terrestrial and marine areas by 2030, with a focus on habitats within biodiversity hotspots.
While we are proud of our pioneering conservation history, and the contribution Kariega Game Reserve has made to date, through the re-wilding of 21 different farms to create the current 11, 500 hectare, Big 5, protected wilderness; this global call to action is urgent and all stakeholders including the private sector, non-profit organisations, the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) and South African National Parks' (SANParks) must contribute and co-ordinate efforts if we are going to achieve this goal and in a sustainable manner.
Greater Addo-Amatole Biodiversity Node
The Greater Addo to Amatole Biodiversity Node, has been identified as one of three national, priority landscapes (within a biodiversity hotspot) with stakeholders that share a vision for the creation of a mega-landscape corridor.
Within this larger framework our focus is on the protection of critical habitat within the Bushmans and Kariega River Valleys and promoting the creation of the Bushmans River Valley Wildlife Corridor.
Habitat Expansion Projects
Each Habitat Expansion Project is carefully planned and approached in distinct phases:
- Identification of the most important habitats for incorporation into the protected area with maximum benefit to key and endangered species.
- Sustainability modelling to determine best land use and revenue streams for sustainable investment into habitat and wildlife management, wildlife protection and community benefaction.
- Connecting the project with donors who align with project objectives and have a desire to be part of our conservation and community team actualising the vision.
- Implementing the project plan.
Successes
A long-standing habitat expansion vision was actualised in 2023, when an additional 1,500 hectares of biodiverse habitat in the Bushmans River Valley was acquired as a donation and incorporated into the Kariega Game Reserve protected area.
Key conservation benefits include:
- An additional 1, 500 hectares of biodiverse habitat under conservation management.
- 25 km of Bushmans River estuary protected and under conservation management.
- Habitat protection of the critically endangered Esturine Pipefish.
- Additional habitat to support white rhino breeding.
- Introduction of cheetah in partnership with Ashia Cheetah Conservation and EWT (Endangered Wildlife Trust).
- Additional habitat for elephant, lion, and brown hyena.
- Additional habitat for participation in the conservation of the critically endangered black rhino via custodianship of South African government black rhino, in partnership with the WWF Black Rhino Range Expansion Programme (BRREP).
It is the first time black rhino have been back in the Bushmans River Valley since 1850.
Please contact our CEO, Lindy Sutherland if you would like your legacy it be an investment in planet, people and wildlife.
Contact our CEO
If you would like your legacy to be an investment in planet, people and wildlife as part of a dynamic team working to save and protect biodiversity in an identified biodiversity hotspot, email Lindy Sutherland for details of our current habitat expansion project.
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