Bruce McLeod

Bruce McLeod co-founded The Ubuntu Conservation Trust, a successful land stewardship initiative in South Africa in 1999. He is now retired and lives in Betty’s Bay, near Cape Town. He can be reached at bmcleod@iafrica.com.

Bruce McLeod in Kosmos

The Potential of Grassroots Environmental Stewardship

Some years ago, CapeNature launched a highly successful land acquisition project called the Stewardship Programme. It offers incentives to land owners to make land available for conservation. These Contract Nature Reserves are designed to establish areas and inter-linked corridors of land to promote conservation—and it works.

Published in Volume 21 Issue 3

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,