The fun of Nature Journaling - why we all need to do it. So... why am I telling you about Nature Journaling? Because somewhere along the way, we became permanently attached to our devices. Not all bad, of course—but in the process, we drifted away from nature. Life...
In the last newsletter we included an infographic on Biosphere Living, and a question of “do we love the biosphere to death” with our actions? Here is a “50/50” type question from a resident Although this style of article is different to those we usually feature in...
Last month, Mike The Owl Box Man, showed us how dangerous it is to put poison out for rodents. Owls suffer from secondary poisoning after eating those rodents and other poisoned prey. He asked us to stop using poison and consider using humane animal traps. At his...
It was World Bee Day on 20 May. The theme for World Bee Day is ”Bee together for People and Planet – A partnership that sustains us all”. To celebrate this day at our BBC4thSATURDAY event on 25 May, we hosted Lourens and Dylan Kruger from the Cape Honey Bee...
A BBC event for the city Nature challenge Big thanks to Peter Oxford of BBC for such an informative walk on 25 April. We set off from Sea Way Drive but we didn’t get very far. There were so many shells, to see and identity in just a short distance on the...
Mike Amira, the Owl Box Man, gave us a passionate, humorous and informative talk on his work of rescuing owls in different predicaments and building owl boxes, bat boxes and catios. Mike’s rescuing escapades have involved climbing the heights of chimneys and roofs as...
Permission granted by Pete Oxford to use this column from the Overstrand Herald.
The Overstrand ECO INDABA was a collaborative event uniting public and private conservation organisations, local communities, advocacy groups, and educational entities to ensure environmental stewardship of the Kogelberg Biosphere and its environs. On 28 March 2026,...
Thanks to Faroeshka Rodger, the Conservation Manager (On-site) for the Kogelberg Nature Reserve Complex, for updating us on aspects of their work at Stony Point. She previously worked for SANParks at Boulders Beach, so she has many years of experience at an African...