NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS What is the nature-based solutions BBRA portfolio, and what does it do? Recently, the BBRA received an enquiry on what the portfolio does and why it is not named conservation. In an effort to answer this, we must first explain what nature-based...
BETTY’S BAY FIRE & RESCUE VOLUNTEERS With Fire Season almost upon us, the team is hard at work honing their skills and training sometimes twice a week, to make sure that they are all as prepared as possible to jump into action when the time comes. All new recruits...
In September 2024 there were nine call-outs, all medical cases. Seventy one call-outs have been responded to in the first nine months of 2024. We now have a team of eleven as one member has resigned. Team members meet a couple of times a month to review our call-outs...
MARKETS We wish to thank all the community members who supported and celebrated our market’s 1st birthday in Saturday 5 October. A special thank you to Sandown Security for providing the entertainment. It was a very successful event where great prizes, donated by our...
The Battle for Betty’s Bay We returned to the Harold Porter Gardens to continue the work done last month. We have been asked by the Estate Manager, Wonga Kominisi, not only to remove the dead material but to clear some of the areas infested by Keubooms. We completed...
HCCC provides welfare services to the Hangklip community, i.e. residents of Betty’s Bay, Pringle Bay and Rooi Els. During the month of August we distributed 52 food parcels and prepared 598 meals! Some of our members have expressed interest in playing Canasta and the...
The Betty’s Bay Conservancy (BBC) recently supported the BBRA’s application to lease Erf 4030 Betty’s Bay with the intention of establishing a community conservation area. It submitted a letter of support to the Overstrand Municipality and included some...
Biosphere reserves are areas of terrestrial or coastal/marine ecosystems. The Kogelberg Biosphere comprises a combination of both terrestrial and marine. Biospheres have three zones: Core - which is a legally protected area where human intervention is strictly...
About 35 residents attended the Strandlopers presentation in Crassula Hall on Monday 7 October. Since May 2019 this team has covered 194 locations along a third of the South African coastline. In October they walked 225km along the coastline from Rooiels to De Dam...
GSB 2024 saw cities and towns throughout the Southern hemisphere participating from 20 -23 September to capture diversity in their areas. People were requested to take photographs of every living thing (other than humans and pets) and to upload these to iNaturalist....