Estate Living Digital Publication Issue 4 April 2015 | Page 30

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off the course, including Louis Oosthuizen,
who, as well as being a resident, also has
a junior golfing academy on the estate’s
driving range. As well as golf, Pinnacle
Point is one of a limited number of estates
that truly protects its biodiversity, creating
a proudly natural footprint, and is working
with the local authority on obtaining
recognition for the Pinnacle Point Caves
as a world heritage site.
A registered guide, working with the
Home Owners Association, offers tours
to the caves and it is at these caves and
others, where students from Arizona
State University regularly attend on-site
archaeology sessions. In addition to
the excitement surrounding the caves,
experts from Kirstenbosch Botanical
Gardens have recently located a rare plant
species seed. Diosma Aristate is a critically
endangered species on the South African
Red List and was luckily ‘in seed’ and these,
together with herbarium specimens
and field data were collated for the
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership - the
largest international plant conservation
project in the world.

Building guidelines, in regards to architectural
and environmental elements are extremely
stringent. Residents need to allow the
EnvironmentOfficertoremoveallindigenous
plants and the archaeologist to assess the
land prior to construction. On various areas
of the estate 25% or 40% of the natural
vegetation needs to remain undisturbed. An
in-house landscaper \