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FFL9: Uilenkraal Valley Restoration Project
The Greenpop Foundation
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Location
South Africa
Type
reforestation
Size
0.505 ha
Project Description
Forests for Life is dedicated to restoring forest and woodland ecosystems, effectively manage critical catchment areas, and improving the lives of communities who rely on forest resources across Sub-Saharan Africa. In partnership with the Platbos Forest Reserve in the Western Cape of South Africa, the Greenpop Foundation has been reforesting and restoring Africa's southernmost forest since 2011. This work serves to restore forest habitat for many incredible species including the Cape Leopard
Stakeholders and local communities involved in the project
Local landowners
Project Goals
The Platbos Conservation Trust, through its Platbos Forest Restoration Project, aims to protect and restore the forest landscape in the Platbos Forest Reserve. This project, which was initiated in 2006 following significant wildfires in the Uilkraal Valley, includes activities to clear the alien vegetation which poses a fire threat to the forest and to reforest degraded forest patches with indigenous trees. In this way, not only is the fire risk to the forest reduced, but the forest itself, and the biodiversity it supports, is reintroduced back into the landscape.
Project Outcomes:
- Degraded patches of indigenous forest in the Platbos Forest Reserve reforested with seedlings from the same genetic stock as the old-growth forest.
- Fire risk decreased through the clearing of alien vegetation and maintenance of an extensive fire break.
Co-benefits
Biodiversity conservation through increasing habitat availability for forest-dependent species
Increased soil stability and health, improved water regulation, increased carbon sequestration, economic benefits derived through eco-tourism and sustained forest productivity
Tree species (planted and/or existing)
Sideroxylon inerme | Olea europaea africana | Kiggelaria africana | Celtis africana | Apodytes dimidiata | Halleria lucida | Cunonia capensis | Curtisia dentata | Ilex mitis | Diospyros whyteana | Euclea racemosa | Olinia ventosa | Chionanthus foveolata | Canthium mundianum | Searsia pyroides | Gymnosporia grandifolia | Gymnosporia buxifolia
Tree density (trees/ha)
10000
Project ID
1717405372378