Right Road North Traditional Cache
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This cache is a roadside cache with a difference. It will ensure that you are on the correct road (plantation firebreak) in a northerly direction back to Kaapschehoop from the Southern Boundary cache. This is the western boundary of the Blue Swallow Reserve.
Enjoy the views to the East as this is a shrinking habitat known as the “ Grassland Habitat”
Grasslands in all their variations are currently one of South Africa’s most threatened biomes, with only 2.5% formally conserved and more than 60% already irreversibly transformed. The primary threats to grassland habitat include degradation and conversion mainly as a result of large scale agriculture development, urbanisation, prospecting and mining.
The benefits of conserving grasslands include the provision of good quality water in large quantities, flood attenuation, carbon sequestration, thatch grass for the building industry, grasses and sedges used to produce and sell a wide range of arts and crafts, areas of scenic beauty and areas that contain many unique animals, plants and birds upon which the eco-tourism industry is built. The ecotourism industry provides direct employment to one in 20 South Africans and if implemented appropriately contributes significantly to the protection of various threatened ecosystems.
The Endangered Wildlife Trust’s (EWTs), Threatened Grassland Species Programme (TGSP) had two active projects in 2010, the Blue Swallow and Oribi conservation projects and will be initiating the Yellow-breasted Pipit, Giant Girdled Lizard and Cycad conservation projects in 2011. Conservation globally has moved away from the single species approach in favour of an ecosystems based approach. In order for the EWT to achieve an ecosystems approach to grassland conservation the intention is to implement conservation action for priority areas within the grasslands and for suites of priority species inhabiting them.
The cache is hidden on the eastern side of the road (firebreak) in a 10cm X 10 cm lock & lock camo container. It contains a log book and a pencil.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Haqre n fznyy cvyr bs fgbarf.
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