A PREAMBLE TO SOIL EROSION CONTROL Ecological rehabilitation is a great deal more than a technical management challenge. Working on rehabilitation projects is a way in which we can establish a balanced and healthy ethical relationship with our natural...
Abstract Land-use management policies in rangelands have typically been top down, singularly focussed on achieving maximum sustainable yields from ecosystems, and have generally failed to halt land degradation. Natural resource management approaches which adopt a ...
Abstract Nonsustainable ostrich farming practices have degraded large areas of the Little Karoo, a semiarid region in South Africa. The Little Karoo lies within the Succulent Karoo biome, a recognized biodiversity hotspot. A financial feasibility analysis was...
Abstract The South Coast Renosterveld has been fragmented extensively by agriculture. The extent of thisfragmentation in terms of overall habitat loss, fragment sizes and fragment numbers has not been described previously, thereby limiting the development of...
Abstract Designing broad-scale conservation corridors has become increasingly common as a way of conducting an assessment for achieving targets for the representation and persistence of nature. However, since many of these corridors must traverse agricultural and...
Abstract Pteronia paniculata is an indigenous, unpalatable shrub that invades mismanaged Karooveld, resulting in degraded rangelands with low species diversity and grazing potential. We conducted a series of trials in the Succulent Karoo Randteveld near Barrydale to...
Abstract Links between climate change adaptation, mitigation and development co-benefits inland policy and ecosystem restoration projects are hampered by limited understanding of howmulti-faceted policy, institutions and projects interact. This paper explores...