The Great Karoo is an invaluable conservation area and internationally recognised as very significant but as yet it has no official conservation status. Because of its evolutionary role as witnessed by its unique fossils, its brilliant skies, hydrological importance, uninterrupted landscape filled with rare fauna and flora, historical towns and other heritage-rich sites, its friends and communities treasure the Karoo.
Conservation target: 1 000 000 hectares of Great Karoo – Please register by completing the form below and become a Great Karoo Champion.
Membership target: Everyone – If you are part of the Karoo community or a friend of the Karoo please sign up. Existing conservancies and private nature reserves, new conservancies and all farmers can join.
Sam van den Berg of ZAWebs (previously Webadz Designs) in Port Elizabeth has designed and donated this website for and to the Great Karoo Conservancy. This site has many capabilities which we hope to utilize in time. We envisage a one-stop-shop for conservation issues pertaining to the Great Karoo. ZAwebs also manages the NKF database and the mailings for the NKF and Nama Karoo Trust. He and his partner Richard are former cops - your details are safe.
ZAWebs was doing websites for the Karoo long before most of us in the Platteland had access to the internet. Sam has been a major role-player in developing Karoo websites and has recently launched www.thegreatkaroo.com which will serve as a tourism and business organizer for the Karoo.
To publish & share your Karoo-related information on this site, please email info@namakaroo.org.