Area Conserved: 5000 ha Wine District: Cederberg Owner / Contact Person: David Niewoudt Phone: (027) 482 2827 Website: www.cederbergwine.com Membership Date: 01 August 2006

Cederberg Wines has a long history of conservation, having assisted with the initiation of the Cederberg Conservancy in 1997, which is one of the most active conservancies in the Western Cape. The entire Cederberg area was declared an official Wilderness area in 1973. Cederberg Wines is also involved in a new conservation initiative called the “Cederberg Biodiversity Corridor”, implemented by CapeNature and funded by Cape Action for People and the Environment (CAPE) and the Global Environmental Facility (GEF). The Cederberg Wines property (called Dwarsrivier) is located in the middle of a large corridor extending from the Cederberg to the coast, which has been identified in need of conservation to allow landscape-scale processes and species movement to occur unimpeded over large areas. A stewardship contract has been signed between Cederberg Wines and CapeNature to proclaim the natural areas on Dwarsrivier as a protected area with provincial status. With Cederberg Wines signing this agreement, the natural areas will be protected in perpetuity, making a significant contribution to the conservation estate of South Africa.

A number of other conservation research projects are currently operating on Dwarsrivier including the Cape Leopard Project, the Clanwilliam Ceder Tree Project and a freshwater fish project being conduced by UCT. on the indigenous fish species still naturally occurring in the Dwarsrivier that runs through the property, such as the Clanwilliam sandfish and Clanwilliam yellowfish. Cederberg Wines have all three of the Western Cape’s major vegetation types on their property including: Mountain Fynbos, Renosterveld and Succulent Karoo. Cederberg Wines plan to undertake a water project with the local farm school, Dwarsrivier Primary and also intent on achieving champion status with BWI in the near future.