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Actions for Improved Vegetation Management on the Bokkeveld Plateau
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University of Cape Town
HOTSPOT
Succulent Karoo
LOCATION
AMOUNT
US$17,892
DATES
Aug 2007
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Dec 2008
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CEPF Strategic Direction Strategy
HOTSPOT
Succulent Karoo
LOCATION
AMOUNT
US$17,892
DATES
Aug 2007
-
Dec 2008

Improve awareness and enhance natural resource management on the Bokkeveld Plateau by producing a veld management booklet for landowners highlighting best practice grazing management for the area and species that can be used as indicators for veld condition assessment. Also assess the current extent and recent historical distribution and expansion of cultivated land on the plateau, with emphasis on Rooibos tea in the Fynbos vegetation types.

Strategic Direction: 3 Retain and restore critical biodiversity in areas under greatest land-use pressure