The Buffelsdraai Community Reforestation Project
This project aims to address the environmental risks associated with landfill by increasing urban biodiversity and maintaining natural buffer zones to foster climate change adaptation.
Key Messages
- This model can show how natural ecosystems support and protect communities and how communities can support and protect local ecosystems in return.
- Ownership of lands can be a major challenge when implementing a project.
- The project resulted in an increase in biodiversity within the region
- Significant socio-economic benefits for some of the most impoverished communities in Durban was a result of this project.