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Love Letter to the Valley
My time with Nature’s Valley Trust somehow seemed to be over before it had hardly begun. As an American traveling outside the States for the first time, I was so excited to take in as much as I...
Plettenberg Bay Celebrates World Oceans Day by Releasing 5 Rehabilitated African Penguins
The African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus) was listed Endagered by BirdLife International in 2010. To boost their numbers again, BirdLife South Africa and its partners are currently working on...
Plastic = Not so Fantastic
International Coastal Clean-up Results
Just a few weeks ago NVT participated in Greenwood Bay College’s ‘Rocks to Robberg’ beach clean-up event, subsequently comparing results with the Green...
20 things to do in Nature’s Valley
1. Swim with Sharks in the gully
Nature’s Valley’s gully is home to some wonderful shark species. The sharks that are shown below are most likely spotted gully sharks (also known as Sharptooth...
Just Getting Started
As I reflect back on my time as an intern with the Nature’s Valley Trust, it's shocking how fast it went, and just as unbelievable how much could be packed into 90 days. The warm welcome I...
An introduction to NVT’s new WWF-SA Graduate Leaders Interns: Simphiwe Gininda & Anathi Mbona
NVT is a proud partner of the WWF-SA Graduate Leadership Program, and has been a participating organisation right from the program’s inception. Past interns include Cindy-Lee Cloete, Babalwa...
What is the added value of conservation education?
So what do I mean exactly when I talk about ‘conservation education’? Well, conservation education is the process where one tries to influence people’s attitudes, knowledge, emotions and...
Living in paradise…
...is something I think we all dream about at some point in our lives. Well that's exactly what I got to do for six months when I interned at a little place that makes a big and very positive...
An Oberholzer Moroccan Roadtrip
Last Tuesday, 28th of March, Obie Oberholzer gave a wonderful talk about his roadtrip through Morocco at the Nature’s Valley Church Hall. During his talk, Obie showed us the beautiful...
My Goodbye to South Africa
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I am officially out of South Africa. After being there for nine weeks, I can (once again) confidently say that I fell in love with the country. The...
A Canadian in the Valley!
Ninety percent of my time was spent working with white-fronted plovers during my internship with the Nature’s Valley Trust. You might think things could get monotonous after 5 months on the same...
How has fishing changed in Plett and Nature's Valley in the last 15 years?
Do fishermen really have an impact on the inshore fish species in our Bay?
In order to answer this question, the Nature’s Valley Trust (NVT) initiated a fisherman impact study in 2014 under our...
Reflections from one of our first Canadians
You never really know what you’re getting yourself into when you sign up to do something that you found online. There’s always some level of uncertainty, some hesitancy. Is this thing legit?...
Worth the risk
I took a huge chance going to South Africa, but sitting here three months later, back at home in England, I believe it was one of the best decisions I have ever made.
My interest in birds started...
2016 Annual Report
Wow, we at the end of 2016 already! What a fantastic year it has been! If you keen to see our highlights for the year, please read them: NVT-annual-report-2016.pdf . Please feel free to share it...