PRESENCE in the Baviaanskloof Workshop
Cambria (SA): The third annual PRESENCE Workshop was successfully held at the Baviaanskloof World Heritage Interpretative Centre during 5th-6th November. The workshop brought together an energetic groups of stakeholders including researchers, government, implementers, parks managers, consultants, land owners and students.
The theme of the workshop was around opening dialogue for setting up a strategy for implementing for incentives for catchment restoration (often referred to as Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES)) across the Baviaanskloof Mega-Reserve. This year Living Lands (as organiser of the PRESENCE workshop) invited The Learning Company to help facilitate dialogue and the overall learning experience. Please check the Learning Company’s blog for an inspiring and complete review of the workshop and background insights.
Living Lands would like to give special thanks to Eastern Cape Parks, Gamtoos Irrigation Board, South African Department of Water Affairs, Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Dutch Ministry for Food, Agriculture & Nature Quality (LNV), Wageningen University (Alterra & the SELS programme), Rhodes University, The Learning Company, Baviaanskloof Farmer’s Union and Tolbos for their respective input contributions.
Living Lands is a South African foundation setup by EarthCollective to act as secretariat to the PRESENCE Learning Network. PRESENCE aims to guide and mainstream the restoration of ‘living landscapes’.
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Jean-Marie Willems
December 2nd, 2009
Hello,
I’m a farmer in Belgium (Europe).
Today I saw for the first time in the news, about some new environment project in Baviaankloof (South Afrika) with plantations of “Spekbomen” or “Spekthrees”.
Is it possible to buy those kind of threes and make them grow in Europe and maybe the rest of the western world, so we also can reduce CO2 ?
It could also mean an important new source of income for the local people in your country if we have to by them at your place…
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