The Eden to Addo Corridor
Eden to Addo Project Manager Pam Booth with landowner and founding member Neville Ledger
Marina and Chauncey Reid, Pam Booth, David and Pauline Mostert, Hennie Homan, Lloyd and Sheldon Mostert
Keurbooms moth or Leto venus
Bloukeurtjie
The Keurbooms River Corridor
Connecting the wilderness area of Soetkraal in the east to the Knysna indigenous forest in the west, the Keurbooms Corridor links two of the bigger protected areas of the Garden Route National Park.In addition to being a critical watershed for Plettenberg Bay and the Greater Bitou Municipality, the corridor is also a spectacular wilderness area, remote and beautiful with limited access. These characteristics are what make the corridor and its inhabitants special. Although they have decided to live a remote and isolated existence this has not stopped them from coming together in a shared effort to restore their piece of paradise.
The Keurbooms Corridor Voluntary Association is constituted for the purposes of establishing a Protected Environment. The main aims of the Protected Environment are to:
- Provide watershed services within the Keurbooms catchment
- Consolidate the conservation corridor between two formally Protected Areas
- Improve nature-based tourism opportunities.
Named after the river that winds its way through it, the Keurbooms Corridor is also home to the Keurbooms moth or Leto venus: And a Psoralia species known as ´Bloukeurtjie´.
The Keurbooms river and its tributaries are under serious threat from pine and wattle encroachment and the declaration of this Protected Environment represents a vital step towards correcting this situation.
Like the Robberg Coastal Corridor, the Keurbooms Corridor will be one of the first two landowner-led Protected Environments in South Africa.
