Nama Karoo Conservation Seacow River

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SEACOW

The premiere wildlife and livestock region of the Karoo is the Seacow River Valley.

NKF offers conservation assistance to Seacow River Valley landowners. Conservation Guidelines for the Karoo Landowner encourages practices which will have long-term positive impact on the environment & economy of the region such as:

  • Friendly predator control

  • Elimination of locust spraying

  • Elimination of low strand electric fencing & small-unit game fencing

  • Landowner reinvestment back into land for restoration & soil conservation

  • Power lines, transformer & poison bait safety for big birds & return of the Vulture

  • Elimination of burning practices for livestock grazing purposes that destroys biodiversity or contributes to soil erosion

The Seacow River

The cost of low level electric fencing

Hill burning in progress


photo by Andre Boshoff courtesy of the Amathole Museum

 
       

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