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Upper Umtshezi Project

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Area: 5888268 km2
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Brazil; Peru; Suriname; France; Colombia; Guyana; Bolivia; Venezuela; Ecuador
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Santa Cruz; Manaus; La Paz
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Countries: South Africa
Basins: Indian Ocean (160) (Berg, Breede, Olifants, Sondag, South Africa South and West Coasts)
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Protect and Restore Ecosystems (SDG 6.6)
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Nature-Based Solutions
Conservation Agriculture/Agronomy
Dairy and Livestock
Progress to Date: NA Stakeholders engaged with
Services Needed: Communications & outreach
Financial support
Technical assistance
Desired Partners: Investor
Financial Institution
Language: English
Start & End Dates: Nov. 01, 2017  »  Ongoing
Project Website: www.uplandrivers.com/projects
Contextual Condition(s): PHYSICAL: Ecosystem vulnerability or degradation
Additional Benefits: Raised awareness of challenges among water users
Beneficiaries: Ecosystems, Environmental users (e.g., fishers, recreational users)
Planning & Implementation Time: More than 3 years
Primary Funding Source: pool
Project Challenges: Other
Project Source: User
Profile Completion: 92%

Project Overview

The Bushmans River (known locally as the Umtshezi), flows down from the Giants Castle resort in the Moloti Drakensberg Park, into a community that needs our help. There is a catchment that is degraded due to an absence of solid waste removal services, overgrazing, and invasion of alien wattle trees. In a vista that includes the towering Giants Castle mountain, the catchment cries out for intervention.

The amaHlubi people who inhabit this valley have a proud history, and we a…

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The Bushmans River (known locally as the Umtshezi), flows down from the Giants Castle resort in the Moloti Drakensberg Park, into a community that needs our help. There is a catchment that is degraded due to an absence of solid waste removal services, overgrazing, and invasion of alien wattle trees. In a vista that includes the towering Giants Castle mountain, the catchment cries out for intervention.

The amaHlubi people who inhabit this valley have a proud history, and we aim to include eco-tourism and history to uplift the people, and simultaneously empower them to care for their environment.

Plans include a rotational grazing regime, and better markets for their cattle .

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Basin and/or Contextual Conditions: PHYSICAL: Ecosystem vulnerability or degradation
Project Benefits: Raised awareness of challenges among water users
Indirect or Direct Beneficiaries: Ecosystems, Environmental users (e.g., fishers, recreational users)
Months & Implementing: More than 3 years
Primary Funding Source: Pool funding (i.e., joint funding of several partners)
Challenges: Other

Project Narrative

We have identified a suitable tour guide and are teaching her the history of her people and the Langalibalele “rebellion”, as well as presentation skills. We would like to revive the local laundry business that does work for local resorts, and there is a farming initiative that has faltered and is in need of invigoration. Wattle clearing needs to take place, but, as importantly, restoration of grass and other erosion controls on some steep slopes.

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Upland River Conservation (Organization)

www.uplandrivers.com

The conservation and restoration of river catchments in the highlands of the drakensberg mountain range in South Africa, outside of formal conservation parks, with a view to increasing water quality and quantity for downstream users. Learn More

Andrew Fowler
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