June 2023
Our June 2023 newsletter
We hope you all have done your
non-growing season gazing plan?
Winter is upon us and temperatures have started to fall dramatically on theconservancy. We are seeing clues to the drying of the veld, with plenty ofwildlife around the semi-permanent water bodies and an increase predatoractivity in the area as well. We have seen a dramatic increase in lionencounters with the herd in the last few weeks, uncharacteristically high. Weare still trying to understand why?
Our grazing planning for the dry (non-growing) season is what gets the grassseed bed ready for the coming rains and growing season. This planning iscritical in our brittle environment. We did a deep dive into the brittlenessscale, a key Holistic Management insight. we will link that below.
Understanding the difference between the tool of grazing and the tool of animal’s impact is key to enabling the nutrient cycling within a brittle environment and how it connects to recovery and the tool of rest (partial and total). We share a little video about how we change our herds behaviour to enable these two different tools. Especially in our environment when so much of national parks,communal lands and conventional cattle ranches are both over grazed and rested at the same time.
The role of ruminants in Environmental Health
Etienne was invited by the Zimbabwe Professional Guides association to come speak at the ZPGA talk events at the Shearwater Village in Victoria Falls.
Understanding the role of decay in all biological life cycles
Another deep dive into a Holistic Management key insight, this time we look at the Brittleness scale.
Understanding the role of decay in all biological life cycles
Read the blog: The Brittleness scale
Community Facilitators Training Program
We recently trained 10 people from the Grevy’s Zebra trust, from the Northern Counties of Kenya. They were great and we look forward to continuing our support of this region of northern Kenya.
The Dimbangombe herd from above
A huge thank you to Sanjay Soekhoe, from the Wim Hof foundation for recording this video for the Africa Centre.
Its will become a valuable visual in our learning & teachings
Our Vegetable Garden is growing nicely
Permaculture opportunity available
We are looking for a permaculture designer to assist us further, if you are interested in this opportunity, view the volunteer position on the website
Our growing community
We would like to thank everyone that has engaged with us over the last few months, from the new newsletter sign ups to the engagement on our various social media platforms. Thank you!
We are almost halfway through the
year and as such we have started our planning for 2024. But just a reminder for all the new followers, if you have not done so already get your copy of our 2023 training program, we still have a few spots left on courses.
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