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Wetland rehabilitationAs a portion of the mining reserves at Isibonelocolliery is located in a wetland, Anglo Coal SouthAfrica has made a commitment to rehabilitate, offsite,an area of degraded wetland to compensate forthat damaged on-site during the mining operations.Two areas have been selected for the first phase ofoff-site rehabilitation. Baseline biomonitoring wasundertaken in the chosen areas prior to thecommencement of the rehabilitation work, andfollow-up monitoring will be done on an annualbasis to assess the wetland recovery progress.In order to utilise existing expertise in this field,Isibonelo entered a partnership with NGO Workingfor Wetlands. They are undertaking the rehabilitationwork on Anglo Coal South Africa’s behalf, but inline with their own strategy and framework. A partof this strategy is to identify potential people fromthe local community, provide training and enablethem to undertake the work. This pool of trainedindividuals can subsequently be used for future offsitewetland rehabilitation work, as well as for themaintenance of the previously rehabilitated areas.People from the local communityare trained and employed toconduct the offsite rehabilitationnear Isibonelo colliery.28