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Wild Restoration

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descriptionA Greyton non-profit that clears invasive plants and restores biodiversity in the Riviersonderend mountains, the Greyton Sandpit, and on private land. It welcomes volunteers and donations.
tagseconomic/farmers-land-water, theme/environment, theme/water, priority/conservation-environment, lang/en

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For Wild Restoration to review

This page is waiting for Wild Restoration to check it. It is published now so that they can see how it fits with the rest of the site. Until they have approved the text, it may change. Questions for them:

  1. Is this description of Wild Restoration and its work correct? What would you like to change?
  2. When are the next volunteer clearing days, and how do people sign up?
  3. Is there anything you would like to add about the clearing team or the monitoring work?
  4. Should readers reach you through the moderators, or would you like a public contact listed?

Wild Restoration is a non-profit based in Greyton [MS]. It clears invasive alien plants, restores and monitors biodiversity, and helps groups across the Cape Floristic Region work together [MS]. Its clearing work is in the Overberg [MS]. It is a registered Public Benefit Organisation (PBO 930075885), so donations from South African taxpayers are tax deductible [MS].

Its work in and around the valley [MS]:

  • The Riviersonderend mountains. The range covers more than 28,000 hectares, including the Greyton and Riviersonderend nature reserves. It is an important water catchment and a habitat for leopard. Pines have invaded the higher slopes. The current focus is the high-altitude wetlands of the Greyton Nature Reserve and nearby CapeNature land. Crews reach these areas on foot, by 4x4, and by helicopter.
  • The Greyton Sandpit. A 230-hectare site near Greyton that links the mountains to the Riviersonderend River. Local people use it for grazing, woodcutting, and harvesting, and for cycling, running, and swimming. Wild Restoration has been clearing it since 2023 with an experienced local team, working with the Greyton Conservation Society, and clears along the river with the Zonderend Water Users Association.
  • Private land. Helping landowners between the Riviersonderend mountains and the Kleinriviersberg to plan and oversee clearing, firebreaks, and fire management, and to assess and protect biodiversity on their land.

Needs

  • Volunteers to clear invasive plants, from pulling out seedlings for half an hour to cutting trees on the mountain peaks [MS]
  • Volunteers with filming, photography, social media, event management, or marketing skills [MS]
  • Donations to pay the local clearing team, and ongoing funders or sponsors [MS]

Offers

  • Work for a clearing team drawn from the local community [MS]
  • Regular volunteer clearing days, run with the Greyton Conservation Society. More than 150 volunteers have joined [MS].
  • Support for private landowners with clearing, GPS-tracked progress maps, and fire management plans [MS]
  • The Invasive Clearing Action Network, open to local and volunteer clearing groups across the Cape Floristic Region, for sharing methods, tools, and support [MS]
  • Biodiversity monitoring with trail cameras, sound recordings, and iNaturalist observations, which have recorded leopard, genet, bushpig, and klipspringer at its clearing sites [MS]

How to get involved

Sign up as a volunteer, join the Invasive Clearing Action Network, or donate through the Wild Restoration website. For anything else, contact the moderators via How to Submit.

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