Feedback: Woman’s Day 2022
ThalleonAdmin
05/04/2024
Pringle Bay Rewilding hosted a valuable and successful event on Woman’s Day, 9th August 2022. We received an overwhelming level of support from the community and from people as far afield as Hermanus and Cape Town! Woman’s Day provided an opportunity to not only celebrate but share the narratives of women’s achievements in conservation today.
We believe that by giving them a platform to impart their knowledge, offered a powerful reminder to us all that women are well positioned to make a long-lasting impact on conservation efforts and it is our hope that this will provide inspiration to an aspiring generation of women conservationists.
Jenny Parsons and Berni Crewe-Brown both gave informative and eye-opening presentations of their personal experience in the conservation sector, a sector normally associated with men. This perception is gradually changing as we see women making their mark at all levels in society both locally and internationally.
These two women have embraced unique positions and approaches through which they have the potential to bring about meaningful and sustainable conservation solutions.
Berni Crewe-Brown has travelled extensively both globally and throughout southern Africa. Her diverse experiences in life and through her travels motivated her to dedicate herself to work for Social and Climate justice, protecting Biodiversity and bringing peace and harmony to our neighbours and mother earth now – and for generations to come.
In 2005 her career took a turn to Community Development with an Anthropological approach. Since 2010, in the Western Cape, she has been working in and researching Climate Change, Food Security, Permaculture, Health, Training and the Social and Natural ecological environments. Berni and her husband, Mark, finally chose to settle down in Pringle Bay because of their deep love of the ocean and their need to live with and close to nature.
Jenny Parsons is well respected in the community as an ardent naturalist, birder and nature photographer. She is a member of the Botanical Society of South Africa and the South African National Biodiversity Institute’s Custodians of Rare and Endangered Wildflowers (CREW) program. She majored in Botany and Geography in the 1980s at Rhodes University and completed her postgraduate MSc in Geography in 2021 (Understanding Human-wildlife conflict: a geographic study of the Pringle Bay Chacma baboon troop). She is very active in the area and enjoys walking with her dogs in the natural fynbos in and around Pringle Bay.
A big congratulations to the following ladies who won the 2 Lucky Draw competitions:
Maureen McGuinness – Fynbos bouquet
Karin Serfontein – R500 Restaurant voucher
We are grateful for the generous donations from the community and to the organisers Sam Kimmel & Kim Bradnick. A special mention goes to: The two anonymous donors who each donated R500; Karin at Betty’s Box for the gorgeous fynbos bouquets; Sharon at Pringle Wellness & Water; Sam at Sustainable Placements (Pty) Ltd for the gift voucher and to Elize Smit-Labuschagne for the venue, facilities and amazing support!
Thank you for supporting ‘Conversations with Women in Conservation’ and for joining us in the celebration of their environmental achievements.
It is our hope and belief that by fostering a community of passionate and engaged citizens, more people will participate in conservation efforts and threats to biodiversity can be mitigated. When we consciously choose to weigh in against fears, obstacles and challenges, it can lead to opportunities and accomplishments we never dreamed possible.
