{"id":1910,"date":"2023-10-05T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2023\/10\/05\/spoil-yourself-with-free-access-to-provincial-nature-reserves\/"},"modified":"2023-10-05T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T10:30:09","slug":"spoil-yourself-with-free-access-to-provincial-nature-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2023\/10\/05\/spoil-yourself-with-free-access-to-provincial-nature-reserves\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA STATEMENT: SPOIL YOURSELF WITH FREE ACCESS TO PROVINCIAL NATURE RESERVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">MEDIA STATEMENT: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">TO: ALL MEDIA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">SPOIL YOURSELF WITH FREE ACCESS TO PROVINCIAL NATURE RESERVES<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">As part of encouraging and promoting our Provincial Nature Reserves to our communities the Northern Cape the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform, Rural Development, Environment and Nature Conservation is hosting the Nature Reserves Open Week from the 29th September till the 09th October 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The reserve\u2019s Open Week seeks to appreciate the significance of our natural reserves and resources. It is an annual event hosted in September\/October during the school holiday recess for families, friends and organisations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The initiative also seeks to benefit the local communities around the nature reserves \u2013 thus by educating and creating a platform for them, and to create awareness on conservation related issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The adventure seekers who pursue to unwind the nature\u2019s serenity will be spoiled for choice as these reserves have lot to offer. The offers ranges from camping and braaing sites, hiking and 4X4 trails, game drives and those who wish to stay over can book chalets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The reserves are located as follows and for more information please contact the following Nature Reserves Marketing officials;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">NATURE RESERVES OFFICIAL Office\/Cell numbers Email<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Goegap Elmarie Vantura 027 718 1906\/ 073 350 1856 <a href=\"mailto:Elmarievantura.ev@gmail,com\">Elmarievantura.ev@gmail,com<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Rolfontein Kgomotso Mokubung 053 664 0901\/ 083 665 3730 <a href=\"mailto:kgomotsomokubung@gmail.com\">kgomotsomokubung@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Doornkloof Nthabeleng Bodumela 051 753 3006\/<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">083 340 9900 <a href=\"mailto:nnbodumela@gmail.com\">nnbodumela@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Oorlogskloof Leon Vyver 027 218 1159\/\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">078 589 3321 leonivyver@gmail.com<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Head office Kholiwe Mlambo 053 807 7300 kmlambo@daerl.co.za<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mr Bongani Silingile \u2013 Media Liaison Officer<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Office of the MEC<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Rural Development and Land Reform<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Cell: 082 675 1841<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Email:mbsilingile@gmail.com<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">daerl.ncpg.gov.za<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA STATEMENT: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETO: ALL MEDIA SPOIL YOURSELF WITH FREE ACCESS TO PROVINCIAL NATURE RESERVES As part of encouraging and promoting our Provincial Nature Reserves to our communities the Northern Cape the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform, Rural Development, Environment and Nature Conservation is hosting the Nature Reserves Open Week from the 29th September<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/2023\/10\/05\/spoil-yourself-with-free-access-to-provincial-nature-reserves\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/daerl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}