Your conservancy needs you
Ramsgate residents are invited to involve themselves in various green projects.
IF you live in the Ramsgate area, the Ramsgate Conservancy invites you to make a green new year resolution or two.
Members of the conservancy will hold the annual general meeting early in the new year and they are eager to enlist environmentally conscious people to help them expand their many interesting projects.
The conservancy’s wonderful whale deck and its Enviro Centre have proved to be popular and well-used facilities. Now members want to create an attractive indigenous garden around the centre and to construct a visitors’ information kiosk there.
Members are kept busy with their recycling and invasive plant eradication efforts and their river project sees them constantly monitoring the health of Ramsgate rivers and lagoons by means of water sampling. They also monitor beach facilities, dune erosion and the illegal destruction of indigenous vegetation. Their regular newsletter helps them to keep Ramsgate residents informed about environmental news.
With 2016 looming on the horizon, they have drawn up a list of ambitious plans for next year and would appreciate ‘new blood’ to help them achieve their aims. They hope to organise more ‘green’ community events, like interesting walks, talks, demonstrations and their very successful MoonDeckers’ evenings, held at the whale deck every full moon.
These will be held at the Enviro Centre and at other local venues and members who are organising them could use some help from volunteers. Regarding their projects. the conservancy members are pleased to co-operate with other local civic organisations in the Ramsgate area, including Ramsgate Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association, Ramsgate Tourism and Ramsgate Community Policing Forum. The conservancy also sees as vital co-operation with Hibiscus Coast and Ugu District municipalities.
Anyone interested in becoming involved in conservancy interests would be most welcome. Contact Joyce Oliver at 073 2818280 or 039 3125205 or John Makin at 082 4648892 or 039 3149105.
