Welcome to the Oyster Bay Reserve
The Oyster Bay Reserve is a 330ha botanical Reserve that will focus around the proposed Educational Community Facility. This will be the first community nature reserve within Mossel Bay District. The Reserve will preserve and conserve the sensitive biodiversity of the Garden Route as well as offer ecotourism interactions through the Community Environmental Educational Facility that will act as the nucleus of all proposed activities.
The Facility will encourage teaching and learning on sustainable resource usage, including showcasing all fauna and flora in the area, ultimately encouraging the community to join the various eco tourism opportunities that they can partake in.
Various smaller community eco tourism projects are already in place as well as proposed projects, that will be set in motion as suitable funding and partnerships are set up. The primary aim of the Oyster Bay Reserve is to involve the Mossel Bay communities to become more aware of their personal role in conservation as well as in the natural environment.
The Oyster Bay Reserve’s Educational Facility will be a dedicated awareness Facility which will facilitate supervised learning programs and community development activities under various identified spheres. The Environmental Educational Facility centre will be the hub of all the proposed environmental programs and will be the catylist for youth community programs to impact the youth into a better future.
Through this website, you will gain an insight into the many present as well as propsed projects that the Oyster Bay is involved in.
Environmental Projects
The Oyster Bay Reserve is constantly striving to improve the local environment as well as teaching the community the eco tourism benefits that can be derived from them. By empowering the local community to take ownership of a project, they become responsible and want to conserve and protect it, especially when they are being enriched by it in some way.
Investment Opportunities
The Oyster Bay Reserve is a community venture that is totally dependent on obtaining external funding for all ectourism opportunities. There are various options available to sponsors as well as once off funders, that can show case the funder’s green credits as well as commitment to the environment and job creation in the local community.
Latest News
New Rangers guiding conservancies
April 12, 2012
The year 2012 is a year of new beginnings and new ventures. This is certainly the case for the various conservancies in and around Mossel Bay, especially the conservancies (Friends of MEP) who have started to reap the rewards of the legacy phase of the MEP Estuary Restoration and Maintenance project. The legacy phase (phase [...]
Red Stench
February 9, 2012
On Saturday, 28th of January 2012, masses of Red Bait flushed onto the shoreline of the Mossel Bay “Point”. This beach is the main tourist attraction amongst others in Mossel Bay area.
Beck to speak at Tourism AGM
January 6, 2012
Conservationist Aiden Beck-manager of Mossel Bay’s Oyster Bay Reserve-has been invited to address the members of Mossel Bay Tourism at their annual general meeting, whcih will take place at The Point Hotel on 30 November.
New Adventure Camp for Mossel Bay
January 6, 2012
As part of the community outreach programme of the MEP Estuary restoration project, the Pansy Cove and Twee Kuilen MEP Estuary restoration project teams again reached out a helping hand in setting up a community adventure camp facility at the Oyster Bay Reserve in Mossel Bay. The Mossel Bay Municipality and PetroSA have both collectively encouraged these types of community outreach initiatives, during the duration of the MEP Estuary project.
Trees for their Wood
January 6, 2012
The Mossel Bay Environmental Partnership (MEP) in collaboration with the Oyster Bay Reserve (OBR) initial focus in Phase 1 of the Mossel Bay Estuary restoration project was that of removing invasive alien vegetation from the estuaries surrounds.