Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve

04/04/2023

Today WOW E-Bikes Sales & Eco-Tourism proudly received their Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve membership certificates from the Chairman Sharon February -Tourism & Communication (right) & Hedwig Slabig ,Director Biodiversity & Research (left).
Cape West Coast Tourism
Unesco Regional Office for Southern Africa

15/03/2023

Over 30 participating cities/ regions across Southern Africa are preparing for CNC 2023.
Are you keen to join in the fun as we explore nature around us?
For more information: https://linktr.ee/iNaturalist_s.Africa

15/03/2023

If you're not ready to completely eliminate your lawn, consider shrinking it...

14/03/2023

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL #17: Partnerships for the Goals

Targets:
- Strengthen domestic resource mobilization through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection.
- Developed countries must implement their official development assistance commitments.
- Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources.
- Assist developing countries in debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, implement investment promotion regimes.
- Enhance international cooperation on science, technology and innovation through improved coordination among existing mechanisms.
- Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries.
- Operationalize the technology, science and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries and enhance information and communications technology.
- Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support all the Sustainable Development Goals.
- Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization.
- Increase the exports of developing countries to double the share of global exports.
- Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries.
- Enhance global macroeconomic stability, policy coordination and policy coherence.
- Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development.
- Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development.
- Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.
- Promote effective public, public-private and civil partnerships, building on experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships.
- Enhance capacity-building support to developing countries to increase the availability of socio-economic data.
- Build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries.

https://sdgs.un.org/goals
https://sbm.gov.za/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals/

28/02/2023

If it's the 1st, it's on us!!!
We are committed to open access for all, so Museum entrance fees are optional on the first day of each month.

28/02/2023

27/02/2023

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL #14: Life Below Water

Targets:
- Prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds.
- Sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems and strengthen their resilience and take action for their restoration.
- Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels.
- Regulate harvesting and end overfishing and illegal fishing.
- Conserve at least 10% of coastal and marine areas.
- Prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate those that contribute to illegal fishing.
- Increase the economic benefits to small island developing states and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources.
- Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology.
- Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets.
- Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law.

https://sdgs.un.org/goals
https://sbm.gov.za/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals/

07/02/2023

Seafood choices for your family, and for the ocean means saying no to red-listed fish. Cape Salmon or Geelbek is just one red-listed species that is in trouble. But it is still being caught, sold, purchased & eaten. This ❤ choose to so we can have abundant fish for future generations!

07/02/2023

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL #11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Targets:
- Ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums.
- Provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety.
- Inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries.
- Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage.
- Reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters.
- Reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities.
- Provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces.
- Support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning.
- Increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and climate change.
- Support least developed countries, including through financial and technical assistance, in building sustainable and resilient buildings utilizing local materials.

https://sdgs.un.org/goals
https://sbm.gov.za/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals/

21/12/2022