Last night we hosted the Unesco-recognised Cape Winelands Biosphere Reserve meeting at Delheim. It was open for public participation and interested parties raised concern about future development in the Stellenbosch winelands and community.

Delheim falls in the buffer zone and borders core conservation areas and will work with the guidelines of this wonderful intitiative to fight for urban edge to remain as it is indicated on the spacial development plans submitted.

Our conservancy has grown from 5 to 17 members over the past year and now covers 1 200 ha of some of the best fynbos in the Cape. We are busy with a fire management plan which will give us the tools to do block burns on the Simonsberg mountain – a strategy which should help protect fynbos.

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