Browsing by Author "Coetzee, Marisa"

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    The Kruger National Park buffer zone: Planning from the outside in
    (2018-06-21) van der Merwe, Wehncke; Coetzee, Marisa; Holness, Stephen
    Kruger National Park (KNP) spans two provinces, four district municipalities and nine local municipalities, and borders two different countries. In its current extent it is nestled within a vast landscape, meaning it has an extremely complex ‘buffer zone’. In this broader landscape the land use and land tenure systems are extremely varied. These systems all impact on the ability to ensure effective management of the KNP. Through the review of their Management Plan (2018), KNP has emphasised an innovative focus on integration of park management processes with that of key partners and entities in its buffer zone. The process highlighted a number of areas of interest on which the Park will engage with key entities over the next ten years. These include land use, catchment management, safety and security, and socio-economic development. The Global Environmental Facility Protected Area Programme has supported the development of a spatial prioritisation tool for the buffer to identify priority areas from a biodiversity, climate change, ecological infrastructure and socio-economic perspective. The information generated was used, amongst others, to kick-start the development of an ‘intelligent’ land-use buffer for the Park, which has been used to inform and collaborate more strongly on, and with, reactive and pro-active land use planning tools and mechanisms. This presentation will give an overview of the land use work engaged on in the buffer of the Park until this point and will highlight how the spatial prioritisation tool was used to inform this.
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    Kruger National Park Management Plan review: lessons learnt, and informing the strategic and operational priorities for the next ten years
    (2017-06-22) Coetzee, Marisa; Botha, Judith; Smith, Izak
    The Kruger National Park (KNP) has commenced with the process to review its management plan, a requirement of the National Environmental Protected Area Act (Act No 57 of 2003). The KNP Management Plan provides the strategic and operational framework for the management of the park, to ensure protection of the values and achieve the goals and objectives of the protected area in relation to the broader land use. SANParks’ core business recognises the importance of maintaining and protecting the conservation estate, whilst having an obligation to positively impact on the well-being of the mainly rural communities adjacent to the KNP by providing business, employment and other opportunities. The long-term Vision and “desired state” of the Park is derived through stakeholder engagement, in context of integrating parks into the broader landscape. The “desired state” refers to the set of interrelated environmental, socio-economic and other attributes necessary to maintain the protected area in the long-term, and refers to a “set of varying conditions” rather than a static state. It is translated into sensible and appropriate objectives in support of long-term outcomes, seeking an adaptive management approach through on-going learning, continuous reflection and consultation with key stakeholders. The KNP has recently completed 22 broad public stakeholder and focus group meetings. It is recognised that the KNP makes a significant contribution to ecosystems services, and contributes to the local and regional economies and general well-being of communities. However, the KNP is embedded within a landscape with new emerging local and global drivers, and major challenges have been identified during the consultative processes. SANParks-KNP can only address many of these through proper integrated development planning at the local, meso and macro level. This presentation gives an overview of the lessons learnt, the broader integrated land-use approach and planning domain in support of the KNP’s mandate and in response to these emerging drivers.
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    SANParks Park Expansion: Greater Kruger Processes
    (Conservation Outcomes, 2018-10-09) Martindale, Greg; Coetzee, Marisa; Wehncke, van der Merwe