Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category

Why do we have a minimum stay over peak season

At Teniqua Treetops we have a minimum 4 night stay over peak season. Simply because of our commitment to the environment.
When a guest comes to stay with us we wash all the linen after 3 or 4 days depending on the length of there stay. This is also a requirement of a 3 star grading. [...]

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Working for Water

For the last 3 weeks we have had Working For Water clearing aliens on the farm. Amazing project. I hardly saw them. They came and removed, cut ot ring-barked all the trees that don’t belong here. We have pines that have jumped from the nearby plantation onto our farm that they ring-barked. Its wonderful to [...]

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Climate Change on the Garden Route

We have been here 7 years, experienced 3 floods and now the worst drought they have had in the last 38 years. I don’t care about the debates as to whether it is the impact of humans or not (I believe it is) what I do know is if we don’t change our behaviour it [...]

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