Nineteen KwaZulu Natal communities have rejected the iSimangaliso Wetland Park’s draft Integrated Management Plan (IMP) for 2022-2031.
Most Popular
Provincial Biodiversity Plan, Protected Areas Strategy Future Proofs Environment
The Western Cape Government together with CapeNature have unveiled a provincial biodiversity plan and protection strategy to strengthen environmental resilience.
These strategies will support the...
Fishing Vessel Safety Audits to Start
For many it is a pleasingly development that greater scrutiny will be on the state of safety compliance by fishing companies regarding their fishing...
Collaborative Solutions for Soil, Groundwater Rehabilitation in Petrochemical and Mining Sectors
There are truly some terrible images on social media of the damage to beaches up the West Coast due to coastal mining activities. Many contaminated sites remain in a "care and maintenance" phase, where the focus is on containment rather than achieving permanent remediation. Last month, to comply with an agreed order of the Western Cape High Court, mining company Trans Hex finally delivered its updated Environmental Management Programme (EMPr) to mine near the Olifants River Estuary and surrounding coast. However, according to a team of scientists and lawyers, it contains serious flaws that render it non-compliant with the order. In another case Protect the West Coast (PTWC) raised a red flag over a diamond mining application that will destroy 3184 hectares of critical biodiversity biome in the Northern Cape. But apparently there are solutions to the problem…
MPAs: Tool or Valuable Marketing Toy?
By Kevern Cochrane, Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, Rhodes University, Makhanda
In 2007, I published an article “Marine Protected Areas as Management Measures: Tools or Toys?”,...
Comments are closed.