Landowners have shown support to explore the potential to establish a mega game reserve along the West Coast, stretching from the Blaauwberg Nature Reserve to the West Coast National Park, with Darling Hills possibly forming the eastern boundary.   
The mega game reserve will see landowners take down fences to enable new game introduction and freer game movement. Possibilities for facilitating this through culverts under the R27 have also been proposed. This could result in related investment opportunities into the West Coast Corridor, such as the development of hiking and biking trails along the full length of the Corridor, including the coastline, a variety of tourism accommodation and conferencing facilities, terrestrial and marine adventure experiences and different game-related tourism products.  
SANParks has led an initiative over the past 18 months to identify economic opportunities linked to biodiversity and heritage protection. The aim is to practically demonstrate that conservation can be a driver for rural economic and social development. The key partners have been Cape Nature, the Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve, City of Cape Town, West Coast District Municipality, Swartland and Saldanha Local Municipalities, landowners and Corridor communities.  
A survey was undertaken of all the public and private landowners within the Corridor in May to ascertain the current level of economic activity within the Corridor and to assess interest in the establishment of a mega game reserve as a viable business alternative for landowners.
Benefits to landowners would include cost and management efficiencies through shared services (e.g. marketing, conservation and game management, infrastructure maintenance, fire prevention, waste removal, anti-poaching, alien clearing). Benefits to communities would include new green jobs linked to tourism and biodiversity management. Benefits to conservation authorities would be the declaration of a vastly expanded formal protected area within the Corridor by private landowners who voluntarily commit their land for conservation.
 SANParks and its partners formally handed over the survey report to its funding partner the Green Fund, administered by the Development Bank of South Africa. The recommendations of the report will be implemented in terms of an agreement entered into between the SA Government and the UNDP’s Global Environmental facility (GEF 5) Programme.  The GEF 5 Programme is aimed at establishing 197 000ha of newly protected area within SA. Three biodiversity hotspots have been identified, namely the Succulent Karoo, Maputaland Pondoland Albany Hotspot and the Cape Floral Kingdom. The West Coast Corridor is the last intact lowland fynbos region within the latter and both private and public landowners have bought into the idea that it is worth protecting.