Dear FirstName
It’s been a while since I sat down and wrote to you with our news. So this is a long one, but I trust that you will find it valuable.
The last few months have been a time of going quiet and leaning into Nature as much as possible. What has been coming to me is that everything is about BALANCE.
Since moving to the Garden Route in South Africa, I have become involved in the local Conservancy, which is committed to creating a space of harmony between people and Nature. The deeper I’ve got involved the more aware I have become of the increased development, fear and anger within the community environment that is infusing this beautiful wild space, that we call "Wilderness".
On top of that on a National level in South Africa, there is the proposed trophy hunting quotas for Elephant, Leopard and Rhino (yes Rhino!) put out by our Minister of Environment. These quotas are incredibly high and stuck in an old paradigm of consuming Nature for the benefit of a few individuals and to the detriment of the whole.
The imminent start of Shell’s seismic exploration of the Wild Coast of South Africa has become a hot topic. There are no less than five Marine Protected Areas that fall within the proposed exploration site of the project. Even though the rules have changed since the contract between Shell and the SA Government was signed and agreed to in 2014, they are still being allowed to go ahead, breaking all of the current environmental rules. |