R50 plants 1 tree. Please email info@krm.co.za
if you wish to contribute.
Tell Lisa of Kurisa Moya how many miles you’ll drive and she’ll
calculate how many trees would offset this. For example, Dickey
Bird wishes to photograph the elusive Cape Hunting Duck for the
350-24-24 Bird Photo Challenge. He’ll use about 100 l petrol.
Kurisa Moya estimates this would require planting about 26 trees,
which would offset his emissions after 1 year.
PLANT A TREE AND TRANSFORM OUR WORLD
Your donation to Kurisa Moya Nature Lodge’s Greening Project,
enables us to plant indigenous trees at a rural school or clinic
nearby, providing shade and beautifying these often barren places.
This greening project is linked up to the schools’ enviro
clubs and promotes eco-thinking in rural areas. Kurisa Moya supports
a locally-run nursery growing indigenous trees. Improve the natural
environment for future generations, extend our birding habitats
and make our world a little greener. Contact us at info@krm.co.za
for more details or have a look at http://www.krm.co.za/Nature/ResponsibleTourism.htm
Kurisa Moya guests donate trees to green Masia Lama School
More info:
Kurisa Moya Nature Lodge is a 422 hectare property near Magoebaskloof
in the Limpopo Province. Perched on the edge of the Drakensburg
escarpment, this soulful place embraces a pristine indigenous forest
with massive moss-covered forest trees and ancient Yellow-woods.
There is something powerfully restorative in being surrounded by
ancient trees in an indigenous forest and by being in a tranquil
place. There are very few places these days where you can drive
for a few hours, stay for a weekend and return to real life with
a feeling that your spirit is full to the brim and that the world
is a magical place.
Kurisa Moya Nature Lodge has recently been selected as one of the
Rough Guides’ Top 501 Eco-lodges in the world and is one of
a handful of Birder Friendly Establishments which have been assessed
as environmentally and socially conscious and responsible. As custodians
of pristine indigenous forest and other sensitive habitats, it is
essential to put policies in place which ensure that these environments
are preserved and protected. Following an Environmental Management
Plan means that staff, guests and management all work towards a
common goal of responsible tourism. Amongst other things, Kurisa
Moya Nature Lodge is electricity-free, water conscious and has worked
on a small footprint in all the lodges. Refuse is separated and
recycled, while the compost from the organic matter is used on the
vegetable garden whose fresh produce is enjoyed by staff and guests.
AfriCarbon can arrange for 10 spekboom cuttings to be planted to
restore degraded thicket for only R100. Please see more information
or frequently asked questions on www.africarbon.co.za
or email contact@africarbon.co.za.
Overgrazing by goats has transformed vast areas of the dense, forest-like,
thicket vegetation of the Eastern Cape into an open, desert-like
system, and in the process more than 100 tonnes of carbon per hectare
has been lost to the atmosphere. AfriCarbon transforms vast areas
in the Eastern Cape of South Africa from a highly degraded state
to its former pristine state with a dense, luxuriant growth of indigenous
trees and shrubs. Restoration of the desertified land and the recapturing
of the carbon can be achieved in a highly cost-effective manner
by planting cuttings of the common indigenous tree Portulacaria
afra known as spekboom. This has been fully substantiated by scientific
evidence from planting trials during the past 30 years. AfriCarbon
plays the role of catalyser, facilitator, advisor, investor and
participant in the restoration of degraded thicket and the generation
of carbon credits, depending on the needs of the restoration project
concerned. For more information, please visit www.africarbon.co.za
or email contact@africarbon.co.za.
Kurisa Moya guests donate trees to green Masia Lama School
