Fire Awareness Education

The Groenlandberg Conservancy in collaboration with the Table Mountain Fund, World Wildlife Fund, CapeNature and Working on Fire are performing exciting Environmental Awareness Campaigns to schools and communities in Villiersdorp, Grabouw and Botriver. The aim of these clear and concise programs is to create awareness around the importance of biodiversity, wonder and value of ecosystems, habitat destruction of invasive species, illegal activities in the Groenland mountains and the crucial awareness of the dangers of uncontrolled wildfires.

Fig 1 De Rust Primary School visit. 

The activities range from school visits, guided hikes, door- to- door campaigns, information stands, teacher training workshops and attending meetings regarding fire. The Facebook page “Groenlandberg Conservancy Fire- and Environmental Awareness Education” are also well underway and received 136 likes to date, where each event is posted for community members to follow our progress and success. Our results thus far to date range from interacting with 12 schools reaching 3 864 learners with our school visits and engaged with 508 community members with our door- to- door campaigns dealing with water conservation and fire awareness. We look forward for 2017 to create a conservation conscious Groenland!