Our Grootvadersbosch Dwarf Chameleon records are accumulating!
 
Krystal Tolley visited our valley during this year's Silver Mountain Music Festival, where she gave a fascinating talk about the chameleon species and talked more about her book (link below if you want to check it out!). She was also here to do some further surveys and recordings of her chameleon findings and took beautiful photographs of the extraordinary petite species.

The data results indicate that Dr. Tolley found male and female individuals as well as juveniles, thus we can assume that their population is steadily growing thus we need to continue in protecting our Afromontane Forest region here in the valley!  

All images were taken by Krystal Tolley.

​If you want to support her and buy her Chameleon book then please visit here. 

REFERENCES:
Tolley, K.A. 2022. Bradypodion venustum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022. Available at: ​https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/214766876/214766885 

Earlier this year the Conservancy held its annual AGM where we celebrated an important achievement as an organisation - our FIRST internationally funded project! ​We were privileged to have Trevor DeRuisé with us from Lost Boy wines who’s gorgeous “wines from the wild” were a perfect accompaniment to our important AGM.

At the AGM we introduced our members to our exciting new restoration project, funded by the INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE INITIATIVE GRANT (IKI), also known as the IKI Small Grants Programme. The IKI Grant is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and focuses on climate change mitigation projects and on biodiversity and forest conservation.