De Beers Wildlife

2 May 2018

Read all about the ground breaking research to help save the giraffe from extinction which took place on our property Rooipoort as well as the monitoring of the White-Backed Vultures on Dronfield Reserve.

Diamond Route Newsletter – April 2018

Defender Trophy 2018.

The Route starts in Limpopo Park’s Blouberg Nature Reserve, from where it follows backroads to Alldays and then to the Limpopo river.
En-route they will stop at the Burgherrecht Clinic to support a humanitarian outreach to 20 Orphans in the village.
This year, the Defender Trophy in association with Sanparks’ Wild Card, have also secured permission to take the event into the Mapungubwe National Park where they will wild camp in the Limpopo riverbed.
On the 29th of April, they will exit Mapungubwe National Park, and bring the event to Venetia Limpopo Nature reserve.
This will form part of the Defender Trophy route, and will highlight the recently launched 4×4 Eco Trail. For more information visit their website www.defendertrophy.com

WRSA March 2017

The conservation efforts of De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBCM) have been recognised by Wildlife Ranching SA, which has awarded it the ‘Biodiversity and Social Responsibility Award’.

Judges singled out DBCM’s “disciplined ecological management approach” as being “best-in-class in the industry” and referenced the success of its approach to sustainable wildlife management practices and promotion of wildlife tourism.

De Beers pride themselves in hosting one of the first disease free buffalo breeding projects in SA. Other projects also include other species such as sable, roan, tsessebeand rhino. The primary objective of these projects is to conserve these animals as priority one, to breed enough to support other projects in the country and to establish free ranging herds on De Beers properties.

Piet Oosthuizen, Senior Manager, Ecology and DBCM Properties, said: “As a company that mines nature’s treasures, we take great pride in the social and environmental contribution we make around the areas where we operate. As a group, for every hectare of land affected by our mining activities, we manage five times that amount for conservation

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De Beers Consolidated Mines wins Top Conservation Award

De Beers Biodiversity and Social Responsibility Award.pdf