Garden Route Biosphere Reserve Quarterly Newsletter – Winter 2020
These seasonal updates provide a brief overview of news relevant to the Garden Route Biosphere Reserve. We aim to expand their content, reach and relevance as time goes on.
This tumultuous year has clearly been unearthing many searching questions – and also for the GRBR. Our Chair, Dr. Bianca Currie, speaks to some of these in her mid-year update.
The final reports from the Strategic Planning workshops for both Town & Land Use Planning and Youth Environmental Education were released in April and are available for download. Inevitably, these outcomes will need to be reconsidered in light of our ‘new normal’.
And finally, we are glad to report that we have updated the GRBR website, and this includes revising the Vision and Mission statements, and general messaging. These are outcomes of an internal workshop held in late 2019 and since finalised in early 2020 based on feedback.
Keep well during these wintery days and thank you for your continued interest and support.
Chair’s Message
Being our first official newsletter, I was hoping to address you as our stakeholders on a more positive note. However, the COVID-19 global pandemic has indeed changed the world as we know it, turning our lifestyles upside down and disrupting our ‘normal’. More…
Town & Land Use Strategic Planning
The outcomes report for the Strategic Planning Workshop: “Identifying and addressing drivers of urbanisation, land use and land use change and capacity building in the GRBR” was released in April. The report is now available for download. More…
Youth Environmental Education Strategic Planning
The outcomes report for the Strategic Planning Workshop on Youth Environmental Education was also released in April. The report is now available for download. More…
Communications & Messaging Workshop
At the end of 2019, the GRBR held an internal workshop to revise the Vision & Mission statements, and work on the GRBR’s communications and messaging strategy for 2020 and beyond. The updated GRBR website also now features the outcomes of this process. More…