Training environmental monitors for productivity sampling
The Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve team with their silt trap during training.jpg
The Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve team receiving erosion control training from Apex
The Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve team learning practical restoration methods during training
Stefan at Table Mountain National Park
Stefan assessing invasive alien plants for SANRAL
Stefan and Rachel assessing invasive alien plants
Stefan and Rachel after completing an invasive alien plant assessment
Rachel working on the invasive alien plant assessment for SANRAL
Rachel with a invasive alien clearing team contractor in Table Mountain National Park
Rachel undertaking a botanical assessment
Productivity sampling at Table Mountain National Park
Landscape rehabilitation and soil erosion control training undertaken for Table Mountain National Park
Bruce training the BSP team in Table Mountain National Park for rehabilitation and soil erosion control
Bruce assessing the habitat at Inverdoorn Private Game Reserve
Bruce assessing invasive alien lantana for SANRAL
Apex team surveying Gondwana Private Game Reserve
Apex team in Nelson Mandela Bay to assess invasive species for SANRAL
Apex team enjoying lunch after a meeting in Grootbrak
Apex team at Sundays River
Apex team at Inverdoorn Private Game Reserve
Apex monitoring team at Table Mountain National Park
Apex environmental monitors with the Sugarbird clearing team in Newlands
Apex and Gondwana Private Game Reserve team meeting
Spekboom truncheons ready to be planted for restoration efforts
Spekboom cutting planted in Micro basin and packed with brush to protect against herbivory
Root development on a Spekboom cutting – ready for planting
Rita exploring the Basviaanskloof
Planting Spekboom truncheons within micro basins improves survival considerably
Hunter on location while doing his work expierence with Apex
Haworthia arachnoidea Spinnekopnes
Exploring the veld with Mr William Pringle
Danger enter at your own risk
Black rhino Diceros bicornus – Conservation status- Critically Endangered
Bitis arietans Puff adder
A proud team in front of their Micro basin which they made to made to mitigate soil erosion impact
Trip to Addo as a part of Hunters work experience
The Apex team with Japie from Hive Ecosystems
The Apex team with Dr Donovan Kotze as a part of a project monitoring changes to water when clearing IAPs
The Apex team in the Keurbooms Catchemnt for a IAP project
The Apex team at a thicket restoration site at Hive Ecosystems
Stefan, Rachel and Hunter in Jeffreys Bay for a surf
Stefan, Bruce and Rachel ready for the wheat harvest as a part of the biochar feasibility study
Stefan with heavily browsed Spekboom plant as a part of a thicket restoration site visit
Stefan training the thicket restoration implementation team
Stefan in the Kirstenbosch Gardens while in Cape Town for the SANBI induction
Stefan in the Karoo as a part of our thicket restoration project in the Eastern Cape
Stefan getting a close look at the invasive alien cactus and the Cochineal, a biocontrol agent present
Stefan and Rachel practice changing tyres on the company bakkie in the pouring rain
Stefan and Rachel packed and ready for field work in the Eastern Cape
Stefan and Rachel doing their bit to clean up the beach in Sedgefield
Stefan and Bruce undertaking a vegetation assessment on a farm
Rachel taking a break while undertaking field work on a thicket restoration project in the Karoo
Rachel inspecting the soil as part of the soil sampling for the biochar feasibility project
Rachel in the Kirstenbosch Gardens while in Cape Town for the SANBI induction
Rachel helping to put up a new Apex sign at the office in Sedgefield
Rachel and Stefan undertaking Occupational Health and Safety Training at the SANBI induction
Hunter and Stefan having lunch on the go in the Karoo while doing field work for a restoration project
Hunter and Bruce on their way to the Karoo as a part of his work experience
Bruce with the thicket restoration implementation team
Bruce with farmer Jurg planning for the biochar project
Bruce undertaking a site assessment for potential plots for thicket restoration
Bruce interacting with Mike, Nicholas, and Ogie, a landowner with potential thicket restoration sites
Bruce and Stefan inspecting Spekboom propogation at Hive Ecosystems
A stakeholder site visit to the Keurbooms Catchment as a part of our IAP project for the WCG DEA-DP
A quick lunch under the trees for the Apex team during field work
Wild chamomile in full bloom during our ecological assessment in Marocco
The beaty of the Karoo Swaarshoek – Cradock
Storm eating the mountain
Wide spaces with beautiful views
Sociable weaver nest – Northern Cape
Sighting of Addax while undertaking assessment in Marocco
Sable antelope – Hippotragus niger
Rock engravings in the Northern Cape
Restoration training – River bank stabilization
Restoration through action by cattle
Red hot poker – Kniphofia
Providing bank stabilization training to the Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve staff
Practical rehabilitation techniques applied to degraded veld in the Karoo
Opuntia aurantiaca- Jointed cactus – Invasive alien cactus from South America
Nassella trichotoma – Tussock grass – Invasive Alien Grass
Kabeljous estuary Eastern Cape
Bruce taking a closer look at a Baobab tree – Adansonia digitata
Flowers in the field – Gazania rigens
Heavily browsed Lolli-popped Spekboom in flower
Harpagophytum procimbens – Grapple Thorn
Fence line contrast illustrating well managed veld on left and poorly managed bush encroached veld on the right
Fence line contrast illustrating a difference in veld management
Eroded river bank stabalization
Degraded veld making way for invasive alien grass invasion
Cradock peak Outeniqua Mountains
Century plant – Boophine disticha
Baobab tree – Adansonia digitata observed during ecological assessment in the Limpopo Sweet Bushveld
Angora goats joining in on the veld assessment
Anemone stinkhorn fungus – Aseroe rubra
Alpine grasslands of the Sneeuberge
Afternoon storm quenching the karoo thirst
