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Event: Public Presentation on The Cape Leopard Trust
When: 9 June 2011
Where: Cape Union Mart Eastgate Adventure Centre store, Johannesburg

Cape Union Mart invites you to a talk and slideshow by the founder of the Cape Leopard Trust, Quinton Martins. Find out more about this initiative, the work done to conserve the majestic Cape leopard, and chat to the man that makes this happen. Join us at no cost at the Cape Union Mart Adventure Centre in Eastgate. Talk starts at 18.15 for 18.30.

When: 26 May 2011
Where: Cape Union Mart Canal Walk Adventure Centre, Cape Town
Event Type: Talks

Wild Card and Cape Union Mart invite you to a talk and slideshow by the Cape Leopard Trust. Find out more about this initiative, the work done to conserve the majestic Cape leopard, and chat to the team that make this happen.

Drinks and snacks will be served and Wild Card members can enjoy discounts on Cape Union Mart gear. Join us at the Cape Union Mart Adventure Centre in Canal Walk. Talk starts at 18.15 for 18.30. The talk is free but seats are limited so please RSVP to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

At the end of last year the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF) pledged huge support to the Cape Leopard Trust’s Environmental Education and Outreach Programme, amounting to over R1,3 million over the next three years.

One of the approved items budgeted for was a selection of hiking boots for the children who participate in the Cederberg enviro-clubs and camps to use. Many of these children have only one pair of shoes, or completely the wrong kind of shoes to be exploring the mountains in. With this in mind, the NLDTF have provided the funding for a supply of appropriate shoes to be purchased, for use during CLT activities.

The IKAMVA youth group in Masiphumelele are a collection of upper high school students who are committed to achieving a high quality Matric pass (and therefore choices of better futures) through attendance of regular weekly enrichment sessions held at the Masiphumelele library with the aid of facilitators from the NGO ‘IKAMVA Youth’.  Most members are residents of Masiphumelele, an informal settlement in the Fish Hoek valley. Their trip into the Cederberg was enriching and enlightening on an academic level as well as providing personal challenges and victories that will always remain in their psyches. 

In late March we picked up 17 enthusiastic participants from the Camphill village outside Malmesbury for three nights of camping in the Cederberg Mountains at our camp at Matjiesrivier. The group was made up of 4 young volunteering co-workers, 2 permanent older co-workers and 11 “villagers”. Camphill villagers are a diverse group of people whose various personal challenges have led them to live out fulfilling existences in a small integrated farming community. Camphill does not discriminate between genders, race, age or religion as to whom it accepts as residents.

With the southern survey of the CLT Boland project rapidly drawing to a close, we are thrilled to report that the number of leopards for the Jonkershoek, Hottentots-Holland, Helderberg Nature Reserves and the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve currently stands on 16 adult individuals!  Once the survey is finalised towards the end of April, we will give a more detailed breakdown of our southern survey results.  Below are two of our beautiful southern spotted cats!

Published in the latest edition of Environment magazine.

"This is no Spaghetti Western - the complexity and controversial nature of human-wildlife conflict issues and the management surrounding these are tangled up in a hot debate in South Africa. Currently there are two potjies simmering on hot coals – one brewing discontent in farmer/agricultural circles. The other, a bubbling pot filled with concern and strong views by conservationists and humanitarians...read on"

The Clanwilliam Animal Welfare Society is Selling raffle tickets to fund a mass sterilisation drive that is taking place on 23 and 24 May.

CLAWS provides low-cost or free animal health and welfare services to the local community and farms in the greater Clanwilliam area. Considering that the last leopard to be killed in the CLT Cederberg study area was due to a farmer a setting traps to capture feral dogs in this area in March 2007, we support this initiative.

The first phase of the CLT Boland project – the Limietberg survey – came to an end in November 2010. During this 4-month survey, 46 camera stations (totalling 70 cameras) were deployed in the area between Bain’s Kloof in the north, and Franschhoek and Kaaimansgat in the south. The cameras picked up a total of 22 mammal species, including African weasel, African wildcat, Cape fox, caracal, honey badger, small- & large-spotted genet, small & large grey mongoose, striped polecat and water mongoose.

The Cape Leopard Trust is thrilled to announce the sponsorship of a robust and portable Lenovo T410 laptop for educational presentations and leopard research work on the Boland Project. This little machine, powered by Intel processors, is ideal for the work we do. Bearing in mind that the very first laptop used on our project in 2004, a Lenovo, is still running, gives us great confidence in the use we will get out of this. Thanks to the Lenovo team for their support!