Volume II - The Northern Cape Provincial Spatial Development ...

Northern Cape PSDF
Volume 2
Office of the Premier &
Department of Rural Development & Land Reform
149
December 2011
Protect biodiversity Land mass under conservation Declaration of priority areas for expansion of
protected areas network – 56088 ha by 2011
Improvement in management of Protected
areas (5 Provincial nature reserves) – 68% by
2012
Implement the Biodiversity Stewardship
Program to contribute to the Land Mass under
conservation in the form of Nature Reserves
and protected environments – 137 203 ha
Proceed with the declaration of priority areas
for expansion of protected areas in the coastal
zone
Proclaim Orange River Mouth (ORM ‐ estuary)
as protected area ‐ 1863.76 ha
1 wetland proclaimed
ORM and wetland maintained
Strengthening environmental
legislation compliance and
enforcement
Protected ecosystems and
species
Valuing the ecosystem
services
Environmental legislation
compliance and enforcement
Assist with development and implementation
of national Biodiversity management plans for
2 species under formal protection
Develop and implement regulations and tools
to prevent, control or eradicate Alien and
Invasive Species
Habitat loss reduced through protection of
threatened or protected ecosystems
Reduction of number of species on the red date
list (proportion of species threatened with
extinction) through targeted protection of
priority habitats
Gazetting of Namaqua Bioregional Plan
Development and gazetting of Provincial
Conservation Plan
2 Wetland of national and international
importance with management plan in place
Environmental benefits related to the provision
of resource‐based services better understood,
communicated and incentivised
Designation of Environmental Management
Inspectorate (EMI)
Environmental sustainability Scaling up environmental education, awareness
and voluntary activism: Environmental Sector
Skillls Plan (ESSP) fully implemented by 2014
Implement Ecoschool program in all schools in
the province – 300 by 2014
Establish and roll out Rural Environmental
Voluntary Activist Group – 5 communities by
2013
Creating work opportunities 75 000 EPWP work opportunities by 2014
Implement greening projects (planting
indigenous trees) and street cleaning in the
municipalities
Implement coast care program at all South
African beaches ‐ Litter picking and scrubbing
of beach facilities
Dennis Moss Partnership