Building Natural Assets.
Connecting Value.
Creating Impact.
CCDV develops large-scale Spekboom restoration projects in South Africa's Eastern Cape, generating high-integrity nature-based carbon credits while rehabilitating degraded landscapes and empowering communities.
Ecosystem Restoration
Restoring degraded Spekboom thicket across South Africa's Eastern Cape through scientifically measured, large-scale planting programmes.
Carbon Credit Development
Generating high-integrity, verified carbon removal units for voluntary markets — offering landowners and investors long-term financial returns.
Community Empowerment
Creating sustainable employment through harvesting, planting, monitoring, and land management operations at a community level.
The Miracle Plant
Spekboom — Nature's Carbon Sponge
Portulacaria afra, known locally as Spekboom, is a remarkable native succulent capable of sequestering up to 10 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year — rivalling tropical rainforests. South Africa's thicket restoration movement, of which CCDV is a proud part, targets 800,000 hectares of degraded Eastern Cape land.
Learn more about Spekboom800,000
Hectares targeted by 2030
60+
Restoration initiatives
10t
CO₂ per hectare per year
11,000+
Jobs through restoration
Based in Pretoria, Operating Nationally
Our headquarters are in Zwavelpoort, Pretoria with active projects in the Eastern Cape and plans for nationwide expansion. Reach out to explore partnership opportunities.
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