- Shell's shale gas plans stir SA controversy (Article from the Mail and Gardian website) - download
- Review of the draft EMP in support of an applcation for gas exploration in the Western Karoo (Cenral presinct) by Shell exploration company by Fritz Bekker, Clean Strean Environmental Services - download
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Lepidopterists' Society of Africa (LepSoc) in holding a photographic competition 2011.
Closing date: 31 August 2011
Download competition poster details
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The NFEPA project is a multi-partner project between CSIR, South African National
Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), Water Research Commission (WRC), Department of Water
Affairs (DWA), Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA), Worldwide Fund for Nature
(WWF), South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB) and South African National
Parks (SANParks). The NFEPA project aims to:
- Identify Freshwater Ecosystem Priority Areas (hereafter referred to as ‘FEPAs’) to meet
national biodiversity goals for freshwater ecosystems; and
- Develop a basis for enabling effective implementation of measures to protect FEPAs,
including free-flowing rivers.
Downlaod project update
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Inside this issue:
High Karoo Park Blue Cranes, Wetlands & Wildlife
Karoots Karoo People & Culture
Trekbokke Africa’s Greatest Game Event
Seacow Hippo River Valle
Karoo News summer 2011 » |
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Inside this issue:
Focus on invasive aquatic plants
Problems with AGIS/WIP
Invasive aquatic plants in South Africa
Guide to identification of invasive aquatic plants
SAPIA News »
SAPIA News No. 17, October 2010 » |
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The amended NEMA
EIA Regulations were gazetted on Friday, 18 June
2010 and are listed under 'Environmental
Impact Management'
on the
Department of Environmental Affairs
website.
Department of
Environmental Affairs
»
Environmental
Impact Management (DEA) »
Centre for
Environmental Rights
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The Department of Water and Environmental
Affairs has published a Draft National Strategy on
Sustainable Development and Action Plan (http://www.pmg.org.za/node/21731)
that will operate between the years 2010 and 2014.
Enquiries: Ms Dorah Nteo: 012 310 3813
The document is also available here:
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Kamfers Dam, located just north of Kimberley, South
Africa, is under threat from deteriorating water
quality due to a badly managed sewerage works. This
wetland is home to: the largest permanent population
of Lesser Flamingos in southern Africa; the only
Lesser Flamingo breeding site in South Africa; one
of only four Lesser Flamingo breeding sites in
Africa, and six in the world and a host of other
endemic and threatened waterbirds. Kamfers Dam is
also a South African Natural Heritage Site and an
Important Bird Area.
Save the Flamingo website
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South Africa is
committed to submitting its Second National
Communication (SNC) to the UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in
partial fulfilment of its obligations under this
Convention, by early 2011. A call for expressions of
interest is hereby issued to interested and
appropriately qualified individuals and research
groups to participate in this project.
Download Notice
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