Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve

04/04/2023

Today WOW E-Bikes Sales & Eco-Tourism proudly received their Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve membership certificates from the Chairman Sharon February -Tourism & Communication (right) & Hedwig Slabig ,Director Biodiversity & Research (left).
Cape West Coast Tourism
Unesco Regional Office for Southern Africa

15/03/2023

Over 30 participating cities/ regions across Southern Africa are preparing for CNC 2023.
Are you keen to join in the fun as we explore nature around us?
For more information: https://linktr.ee/iNaturalist_s.Africa

15/03/2023

If you're not ready to completely eliminate your lawn, consider shrinking it...

14/03/2023

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL #17: Partnerships for the Goals

Targets:
- Strengthen domestic resource mobilization through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection.
- Developed countries must implement their official development assistance commitments.
- Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources.
- Assist developing countries in debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, implement investment promotion regimes.
- Enhance international cooperation on science, technology and innovation through improved coordination among existing mechanisms.
- Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries.
- Operationalize the technology, science and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries and enhance information and communications technology.
- Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support all the Sustainable Development Goals.
- Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization.
- Increase the exports of developing countries to double the share of global exports.
- Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries.
- Enhance global macroeconomic stability, policy coordination and policy coherence.
- Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development.
- Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development.
- Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.
- Promote effective public, public-private and civil partnerships, building on experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships.
- Enhance capacity-building support to developing countries to increase the availability of socio-economic data.
- Build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries.

https://sdgs.un.org/goals
https://sbm.gov.za/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals/

28/02/2023

If it's the 1st, it's on us!!!
We are committed to open access for all, so Museum entrance fees are optional on the first day of each month.

28/02/2023

27/02/2023

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL #14: Life Below Water

Targets:
- Prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds.
- Sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems and strengthen their resilience and take action for their restoration.
- Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels.
- Regulate harvesting and end overfishing and illegal fishing.
- Conserve at least 10% of coastal and marine areas.
- Prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate those that contribute to illegal fishing.
- Increase the economic benefits to small island developing states and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources.
- Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology.
- Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets.
- Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law.

https://sdgs.un.org/goals
https://sbm.gov.za/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals/

07/02/2023

Seafood choices for your family, and for the ocean means saying no to red-listed fish. Cape Salmon or Geelbek is just one red-listed species that is in trouble. But it is still being caught, sold, purchased & eaten. This ❤ choose to so we can have abundant fish for future generations!

07/02/2023

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL #11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Targets:
- Ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums.
- Provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety.
- Inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries.
- Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage.
- Reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters.
- Reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities.
- Provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces.
- Support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning.
- Increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and climate change.
- Support least developed countries, including through financial and technical assistance, in building sustainable and resilient buildings utilizing local materials.

https://sdgs.un.org/goals
https://sbm.gov.za/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals/

21/12/2022

21/12/2022

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL #8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Targets:

- Sustain per capita economic growth.
- Achieve higher levels of economic productivity.
- Promote development-oriented policies.
- Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production.
- Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all
- Substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training.
- Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour.
- Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers.
- Devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products.
- Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all.
- Increase Aid for Trade support for developing countries, in particular least developed countries.
- Develop and operationalize a global strategy for youth employment.

https://sdgs.un.org/goals
https://sbm.gov.za/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals/

19/12/2022

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL #7: Affordable and Clean Energy

- Ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy service.
- Increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.
- Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency.
- Enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology.
- Expand infrastructure and upgrade technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries.

https://sdgs.un.org/goals
https://sbm.gov.za/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals/

12/12/2022

11/12/2022

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL #6: Clean Water and Sanitation

- Achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all.
- Achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all.
- Improve water quality.
- Substantially increase water-use efficiency.
- Implement integrated water resources management at all levels.
- Protect and restore water-related ecosystems.
- By 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water- and sanitation-related activities.
- Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management.

https://sdgs.un.org/goals
https://sbm.gov.za/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals/

09/12/2022

Outdoor Fire Safety Tips:

✅ Open fires are a common cause of uncontrolled fires in the Western Cape. Preferably, do not start a fire when it is hot and dry, and especially not when it’s windy.

✅ Check with your local fire department before making a fire outside.

✅ On certain days, recreational fires are prohibited, as indicated by the daily “fire danger” rating, which predicts the expected difficulty in putting out runaway fires. The higher the rating, the more dangerous the conditions. So, to stay safe, be aware of the fire danger rating in your area, and act on it. During the fire season, the rating will feature in weather forecasts, be broadcast on radio and television, and published in some newspapers.

✅ The South African Weather Service provides a clear indication through its fire danger index map of areas at risk of veld fires. Areas marked in red (76% to 100%) are extremely dangerous and areas that marked in blue (0% to 20%) are considered safe.

05/12/2022

that there are invasive alien microbes in some of our South African soil?

Experts have reason to believe that some invasive microbes are widespread, especially in the Cape Floral Kingdom. It’s another reminder that is closely linked to keeping representative habitat intact, and to not move species to areas in which they don’t naturally occur.

This , don’t miss our fascinating BotSoc plant conservation webinar on what’s happening beneath our biomes: https://botanicalsociety.org.za/webinar-what-lies-beneath-the-microbiome/

Image: Rupert Koopman