NACSSA AWARDS 2011
The NACSSA award is given to Non members of NACSSA who have promoted Community conservation and helped NACSSA to reach our Goals
The NACSA Chairman’s Award award is given to members of NACSSA who have shown outstanding commitment and service to NACSSA
NACsSA Award
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NACSSA Chairman’s Award
Joan Du Toit
For her dedication to environmental conservation for more than 30 years. Her enthusiasm for Conservation is infectious and her positive influence on others to share her viewpoint admirable. Joan is knowledgeable about environmental legislation and works closely with local authorities to watch over incidents that might be detrimental to conservation in her Conservancy and in the conservancies of Northern Gauteng for which she assumed responsibility over the last few years
Joan Du Toit Cullinan Conservancy and NACSA Chairman John Wesson
Hugh Roberts
In recognition and appreciation for his life long commitment to the Conservation of the Magaliesberg and especially the support furthering the aims of the Conservancy movement
Ian Ashmole receiving the award on his behalf from NACSSA Chairman John Wesson Hugh Roberts Receiving his award from John Wesson at the
Magaliesberg Protection Association meeting
Dear John,
A quick message to thank you for making me the recipient of an award. And to place on record that from childhood I have known it to be a privilege to live a life amongst amyriad life forms, which to you would be nothing new.And that this interest has taken me to many places and to be able to study and attimes record plants and creatures in their habitats and niches, ecosystems and environments all within the fascinating all important physical Environment itself.
This is the story of so many of our kind of people and is a facet of a much broader picture, just as by living in and against this amazing rim of the equally amazing
Witwatersrand Complex basin, which is the Magaliesberg range, which through the years I have viewed with growing concern the never-ending pressures and selfish
demands that people are making upon this precious mountain range.
Your concern and continual encouragement a vital ingredient in sustaining not only the same our kind of people but also making the enjoyment of and the awareness to a
much wider public of the need to preserve and protect this wonderful resource.
So it is that the giving of an award symbolizes recognition of all such people who soldier on, and more especially during these worrying times, and a sharing, encouraging and
stimulating not only to one recipient but all who are involved in this worthwhile and necessary lifes work. So on behalf of all of us let me say thank you John.
For all your hard work for something so worthwhile may you be well rewarded.
( Of course the converse is often stated as ------ No good turn goes unpunished !!) Don't you believe it.
Most Sincerely,
Hugh Roberts.
