BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Strategic Plan for 2011-2012

Portfolio Committee April 2011

PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAMME

Promote Conservation and Sustainableuse of natural resources to contribute to economic growth and poverty alleviation

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OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION1. Biodiversity & Conservation Strategy Map

2. GOAL 1: Environmental assets conserved, valued, sustainably used, protected and continually enhanced.

SO : Biodiversity conserved, protected and threats mitigated

SO : Biological resources sustainably utilised and regulated

SO: Improved Compliance with Environmental legislation (Biodiversity)

SO: Enhanced international governance, instruments and agreements supportive of South Africa’s environmental and sustainable development priorities

3. GOAL 2: Enhanced socio-economic benefits and employment creation for the present and future generations from a healthy environment

SO: Fair access and equitable sharing of benefits from biological resources promoted

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BIODIVERSITY & CONSERVATIONStrategy Map Promote the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources to contribute to

economic growth and poverty alleviation)

Information Disemmination, Monitoring and reporting

Cooperative Governance, Collaboration, Support & Capacity Building

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Sustainable Utilisation

Advocacy and Awareness creation

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Align Budgets to Strategic Objectives

Effective Budget & Risk Management

Fair access and equitablesharing of benefits frombiological resourcespromoted

Biodiversity conserved, protected and threats mitigated

Attract, Develop & Retain Appropriate Human Capital

Biological resourcessustainably utilised andregulated

• GOAL 1: Environmental assets conserved, valued, sustainably used, protected and continually enhanced.

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Strategic Objectives and Targets for 2011/12

• SO: Biodiversity conserved, protected and threats

mitigated

- 0.5% increase in land under conservation

→ 4 provinces with established programmes

→ 5 000 ha of private land proclaimed, with contracts and management plans, according to National Environmental Management Protected Areas Act (NEMPAA), per province

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Strategic Objectives and Targets for 2011/12

• SO : Biodiversity conserved, protected and threats mitigated (cont)

→ TOPS regulations amended and published

→ Norms and standards for the management of Damage causing animals finalized

→ 1st draft norms and standards for the translocation of large herbivores developed

→ 1st draft discussion document for the regulation of the hunting industry in South Africa developed

→ Non-Detriment Findings (NDFs) and quotas made by Scientific Authority published (at least 5 NDFs per annum)

→ 85% Threatened or Protected Species (ToPS) and Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) permit applications received, processed within prescribed timeframe

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Strategic Objectives and Targets for 2011/12

• SO : Biodiversity conserved, protected and threats mitigated (cont)

→ Draft Biodiversity Management Plan (BMP) for Black Rhino; encephelartos latifrons and pelargonium sidoide finalized

→ Draft BMP for African Penguin consulted and published for public comments

→ Management plans finalised for Blesbokspruit, Ntsikeni, Makuleke, Verlorenvlei, Orange River Mouth

→ Management plans for five more wetlands of international importance initiated

→ 100 Wetlands rehabilitated

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Strategic Objectives and Targets for 2011/12

• SO : Biodiversity conserved, protected and threats mitigated (cont)

→ Process for approval and publication of Minimum requirements for biodiversity in land use planning and Integrated Environmental Management (IEM) initiated

→ Process for approval and publication of Mining and Biodiversity-Good Practice Guidelines for South Africa initiated

→ GIS based spatial land use planning tool developed: Phase 1

→ 100% of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) applications assessed for environmental compliance

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Strategic Objectives and Targets for 2011/12

• SO : Biodiversity conserved, protected and threats mitigated

- 5 tools developed and implemented to address threats

→ Alien Invasive Species (AIS) regulations published and implemented

→ Risk assessment framework for AIS and guideline for evaluation developed

→ 1st draft guidelines for Monitoring and Control Plans developed

→ Initiate the development of the National Strategy for AIS

→ Species management and eradication programmes developed

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Strategic Objectives and Targets for 2011/12

• SO: Biodiversity conserved, protected and threats mitigated

→ Vulnerability assessments completed for all biomes

→ 800 hectares of Land rehabilitated

- Research Programmes

→ New species research programme initiated

→ Biosafety research programme implemented

→ Institutionalize the coordination of Desertification, Land degradation and Drought (DLDD) research

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Strategic Objectives and Targets for 2011/12

• SO: Biological resources sustainably utilised and regulated

– Sustainable natural resource based project

→Facilitate operationalisation of Aweleni Ecotourism Lodge

→Biodiversity Access and Benefit Sharing- 40%

→Threatened or Protected Species- 60%

→Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species-65%

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Strategic Objectives and Targets for 2011/12

• SO: Improved Compliance with Environmental legislation– Biodiversity Compliance

→Compliance Monitoring Framework for National Environmental Management Biodiversity Act finalised ,National Environmental Management Protected Areas Act and World Heritage CITES Act developed

→2 Coordinated national and international Compliance Operations/ inspections organized and executed

– Biodiversity Enforcement→Assessment of Biodiversity Enforcement Strategies of 3 countries

undertaken and the best practice model identified

→1 specialised training course for Biodiversity Environmental Management Inspectors (EMI’s) organised

– Awareness raising strategic plan developed

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GOAL 2: Enhanced socio-economic benefits and employment creation for the present and future generations from a healthy environment

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Strategic Objectives and Targets for 2011/12

• SO 4: Fair access and equitable sharing of benefits from biological resources promoted

→ Wildlife Sector transformation negotiations initiated (situational analysis on broader biodiversity sector)

→ 80 % of Biodiversity Access and Benefit Sharing (BABS) permits applications assessed

→ Guidelines for negotiating, concluding and evaluation benefit sharing agreements finalised

→ Ratification of Nagoya Protocol

→ 1 co-management agreement facilitated

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Strategic Objectives and Targets for 2011/12

• SO: Enhanced international governance, instruments and agreements supportive of South Africa’s environmental and sustainable development priorities

→ 2 integrated conservation and development plans initiated for TFCA’s

→ 1 cross border trail established

→ 50 animals Translocated

→ 3 projects in the TFCAs investment catalogue financed by investors as a result of investment promotion

→ 2 awareness raising campaigns held under Boundless Southern Africa

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