ProjectsEstuary Rehabilitation Project
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The community empowerment project has given a new lease of life to all the Mossel Bay estuary water systems, along the Mossel Bay Coastline. The removal of alien vegetation along the estuary water ways has had a positive environmental impact. More than 88 jobs, previously disadvantage people employed as well as various new and innovative initiatives have been created as well as a new passion for the environment, which has opened the eyes of the community to the various entrepreneurial opportunities that are out there.
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Strategic Firebreak Project
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The Community Strategic Firebreak Project is the second Expanded Public Works Programme the Conservation Trust was involved with. The project aimed at implementing specific strategic firebreaks to protect the various residential components in previously excluded communities, as well as removal of aliens in unsafe urban fringes in and around Mossel Bay. This was achieved in collaboration with the Mossel Bay Municipality, PetroSA for Mossel Bay Environmental Partnership, to assist the drive in the “War on poverty”. This Legacy project empowered various community entities and student interns to eventually run their own companies in the desired fields.
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St. Blaize Biodiversity Forum Project
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Mossel Bay’s St. Blaize Biodiversity Forum is a conservation education project. The Conservation Trust published a series of conservancy-based data diaries, so that members of the public could help to collect the environmental data needed in future land use planning. This collective environmental data will be used for future approval of proposed developments, and preserving natural and cultural assets for the town as future eco-tourism. The SBBDF data diaries provide identification guides to the most important animal and plant species in the area. This data is captured on a website to give an indication of which areas need to be preserved based on veritable data collected.
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Worm farms
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This recycling project started off as an initiative to educate the community on how to protect and conserve the environment by reducing green waste that goes into landfills. Green waste produced in the kitchen can now be recycled by worms in the Red Wriggler worm farm. The Conservation Trust has donated worm farms to local schools in the areas well. This initiative has the potential to reduce green waste that enters our landfills by a considerable amount. The working worms was a legacy project that grew out of this project.
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Food Gardens
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The food garden legacy project was nurseries that were created to utilize the compost and vermin-tea produced by the worm farms. The waste created at the nurseries was also then fed into the worm farms and an entire recycling loop was to show all communities how it worked. The legacy project managed by the trust was created to support food gardens to become sustainable. This was then implemented at four community food gardens and they were constructed throughout Mossel Bay at: Slawe huis soup kitchen in Freimersheim; KwaNonquaba crèche and the Correctional service youth centre and the CEF abused women shelter. These nurseries were built by the students and the various local communities. They also taught the communities to grow and propagate their own organic vegetables, which they can use for themselves.
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