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- ItemDelineating and updating South Africa's Strategic Water Source Areas(SANBI, 2016-06-08) Maherry, Ashton; Nel, Jeanne; Seyler, Helen; Smith-Adao, Lindie; Witthüser, Kai; Holland, Martin
- ItemFreshwater ecosystem service mapping: Concepts and examples from South Africa(2012-05-24) Nel, Jeanne; Job, Nancy; O'Farrell, Patrick; Smith-Adao, Lindie
- ItemInland Aquatic Annexure D: Complete list of Ecosystem Threat Status (ETS) and Ecosystem Protection Level (EPL) for each of the 222 river ecosystem types(SANBI, 2019-09-18) Smith-Adao, Lindie
- ItemInland Aquatic Annexure F: DESCRIPTION OF DWS MONITORING POINTS PER RIVER ECOSYSTEM TYPE(SANBI, 2019-09-18) Smith-Adao, Lindie
- ItemKey achievements and progress towards National Biodiversity Assessment 2018(2017-06-21) van Deventer, Heidi; Smith-Adao, Lindie; van Niekerk, Lara; Foden, WendyThe National Biodiversity Assessment (NBA) is central to fulfilling SANBI’s mandate to monitor and report regularly on the status of the country’s biodiversity. It is a collaborative effort to synthesise the best available science on our biodiversity to inform policy and decision-making in a range of sectors, and contribute to national development priorities. The NBA focusses specifically on high-level indicators such as threat status and protection level for species and ecosystems. However, it also endeavours to capture the challenges and opportunities embedded in South Africa’s rich natural heritage by looking at biodiversity in the context of social and economic change and the relationship between people and their environment. SANBI does not have all the capacity required to undertake the NBA in-house, and draws substantially on contributions of time and other in-kind resources from a wide range of partners over the course of the 5-7 year cycle. This is important not only for completing the work, but also for the collective ownership of the NBA by the biodiversity science community in South Africa. The NBA is a multi-author and multi-stakeholder project. This overview presentation will highlight key achievements to date on the journey to NBA 2018 (to be published in 2019). It will look at significant advancements since NBA 2011 and touch on what is unlikely to be achievable for this NBA. While many presentations at the Biodiversity Planning Forum each year relate in some way to the NBA, this presentation will attempt to highlight those that are not necessarily covered in detail in other presentations.
- ItemKnowledge co-production and boundary work to promote implementation of conservation plans(2015-05-28) Nel, Jeanne; Roux, Dirk; Hill, Liesl; Maherry, Ashton; Snaddon, Kate; Petersen, Chantel; Smith-Adao, Lindie; Van Deventer, Heidi; Reyers, Belinda
- ItemNational Biodiversity Assessment (NBA) 2018 taking shape(2018-06) van Deventer, Heidi; Smith-Adao, Lindie; van Niekerk, Lara; Harris, Linda; Foden, Wendy
- ItemNational biodiversity assessment - testing the integrity of our freshwater ecosystems(Water Research Commission (WRC), 2016-09) van Deventer, Heidi; van Niekerk, Lara; Smith-Adao, Lindie; Nel, Jeanne; Petersen, Chantel; Collins, N.
- ItemReview of available data for a South African Inventory of Inland Aquatic Ecosystems (SAIIAE)(2018-05-03) van Deventer, Heidi; Smith-Adao, Lindie; Petersen, Chantel; Nel, Jeanne
- ItemSouth African Inventory of Inland Aquatic Ecosystems(CSIR and SANBI, 2018-07-01) van Deventer, Heidi; Smith-Adao, Lindie; Mbona, Namhla; Petersen, Chantel; Skowno, Andrew; Collins, Nacelle; Grenfell, Michael; Lötter, Mervyn; Ollis, Dean; Scherman, Patricia; Sieben, Erwin; Job, Nancy; Snaddon, Kate
- ItemStrategic Water Source Areas: protecting critical ecological infrastructure for human well-being and biodiversity(2017-06-22) Le Maitre, David; Seyler, Helen; Smith-Adao, Lindie; Nel, JeanneThe protection of Strategic Water Source Areas (SWSAs), for both ground and surface water, is critical for achieving water security and for sustaining the aquatic ecosystems that provide and convey the water. The SWSAs cover 22.95 million ha of land with only 1.96 million ha (8.53%) in formal protected areas, and include state, tribal trust and privately-owned land. The existing land-uses include natural rangelands and areas which are cultivated, forest plantations, urban or otherwise transformed and there are already extensive alien plant invasions in many SWSAs. Many of the activities in these areas have adverse impacts on water quantity or quality which need to be avoided or mitigated, and much of the land needs restoration to reduce sediment loss. Protection of the quantity and quality of the water that the SWSAs provide will require a co-ordinated and collaborative approach involving various government bodies and the private sector. The extent, range of land ownership and existing uses make formal protection unworkable and unachievable. The best option is to combine a bottom-up approach of water and land stewardship (e.g. LandCare) with top-down co-operative governance. Achieving effective water source area protection on this scale will require new and innovative approaches.