UWC Botanical Calendars

The Cape Flats Nature Reserve was proclaimed in 1978 adjacent to the Bellville campus of the University of the Western Cape. The UWC Botanical Calendars were produced to illustrate the diversity of fauna growing in the Cape Flats region in the Western Cape province of South Africa and especially the bordering Cape Flats Nature Reserve. The university's Nature Reserve Unit endeavours to promote conservation in a belief that it can contribute to the community's quality of life in a meaningful way. The Nature Reserve Unit has launched several community-orientated programmes covering environmental education, environmental conservation, indigenous horticulture and plant sales. Chief aims of the Unit are to promote community upgrading through indigenous greening projects, to conduct environmental education programmes based in local natural veld, serving local communities, and to contribute to high quality urban and regional planning through appropriate environmental input.