By Rona Van Der Merwe. Local activists and concerned residents have teamed up with PTWC to teach primary school learners about the wonders of the coastal environment. A year ago, the small fishing town of Doringbaai, about 300km up the

Come run with us to support the incredible bio diversity of the Olifants River Estuary – the country’s second most important estuary listed as a Critical Biodiversity Area by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI). The Olifants River Mouth.

Words by Steve Pike. During the months of February and March 2023 the team at Jack Black’s led by the inimitable Ross and Meghan McCullough put our name on their Pint for a Purpose tap. This meant that every time

Words by Steve Pike. Moonstone’s Doringbaai mining site. Image by Sacha Specker. PTWC reports a breakthrough and meaningful win to protect critically important areas of bio-diversity north and south of the Olifants River Estuary. After launching an urgent interdict application

Words by Rona Van Der Merwe and Steve Pike PTWC Exco members Camila Budden and Rona van der Merwe attended the 12th annual Greenpop Reforest Festival over Easter Weekend at Bodhi Khaya, Grootbos and presented a talk. This popular and

Words by Rona Van De Merwe and Steve Pike. The rare Orange Strandveld Lizard. Image: Chad Keates. In ironic good news for a threatened desert reptile, the striking Orange Sandveld Lizard is likely to be upgraded to the Red List.

15 December 2022 Moonstone mine in Doringbaai. Image by Sacha Specker. An urgent application to interdict a company from diamond mining near a critically important RAMSAR global bio-diversity hotspot at the mouth of the Olifants River estuary has been lodged

To illustrate the fight that PTWC has on its hands, yet another new prospecting application has been granted by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy over a vast area all the way from Elands Bay past Lamberts Bay and

Because the West Coast faces a deluge of prospecting and mining applications that require serious legal firepower to combat, PTWC has launched a crowdfunding campaign. Please help us fund legal action against mining companies on the Cape West Coast that

Words by Steve Pike. Image by Khaya Pullen. Alexander Bay, in the far Northern Cape was a thriving little town in 2001. The area, known for wealthy alluvial diamond deposits, was a vibrant economic zone, where the state-owned Alexkor mining

Diepkloof Shelter hand prints. The West Coast of South Africa is an open museum, where countless archaeological, palaeontological and historical sites can be found. You will see old mission stations, outposts, forts, whaling and fishing stations, historical monuments and other

Our CEO Mike Schlebach was interviewed up the West Coast on Afrikaans DStv channel Kyknet recently where he related how a 30 year career in surfing, and a deep love for the West Coast, led him and a small team