On Monday, 4 June 2018, eight excited learners from our local farm schools were ready to be brave and zipline in the canopy of the Karkloof’s magnificent indigenous forest. Earlier in the year, these learners achieved first prize in their age categories at the Three Cranes Big Day Out event, where they ran a mini […]
Article by Dr Jolene Fisher (Vogts), School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. Mistbelt forests historically occurred within a pristine grassland matrix – found on steep south-facing slopes where they are protected from fire and found as ‘pockets’ of forests throughout KwaZulu-Natal. Sadly, from around 1880 until 1940, many of these […]
Toddle (verb): to move with short, unsteady steps, as a young child. With the recent rains which filled the streams, combined with the many forest obstacles, the toddle was the only mode of transport for the 27 hikers who joined us. Carol Owen, a member of the Karkloof Conservancy, organised this second quarterly hike which […]
Written by Janine Smith, Regional Secretary for the Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife Honorary Officers. Sixteen kids aged between 3.5 years and 11 years old spent two wonderfully exciting days at Bushwillow Caravan Park in the Karkloof, accompanied by parents and grandparent. This is thanks to the founders John and Linnet Crow, and Twané Clarke whose dream […]