South African National Water Week 2025
South African National Water Week 2025 (20–26 March 2025) offers a dedicated platform to celebrate innovative approaches that secure our nation’s most precious resource. This year, our focus is on actionable, nature-based solutions that empower communities and enhance water security.
At the 2nd Southern African Mountain Conference (SAMC2025) held at Champagne Sports Resort in the Central Drakensberg, our WILDLANDS project manager, Kirsten Oliver, delivered an insightful presentation.
Her talk showcased WILDTRUST’s work in incorporating community conservation through Nature-Based Solutions, such as Invasive Alien Plant removal, improved rangeland management and the establishment of Protected Area corridors as a key strategy for maintaining our county’s Green Infrastructure. Green Infrastructure in the form of healthy wetlands, intact grasslands and healthy rivers provide services in themselves, and help reduce the pressure on Grey Infrastructure (dams, pipelines, sewers etc.) to enhance water security efforts and contributing towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030.
