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Mainstreaming Biodiversity on the Cape Flats: Building Good Practice in Sustainable Management

Grantee Name: National Botanical Institute

Hotspot
Cape Floristic Region
Location
South Africa
Amount
$371,328
Dates
Sep 2003 – Sep 2007
Keywords
Biodiversity mainstreaming, Habitat conservation and management, Urban development

Achieve good practice in sustainable management of sites in the City of Cape Town. It will first achieve this at four pilot sites - the Edith Stephens Wetland Park, Harmony Flats Nature Reserve, Macassar Dunes and Wolfgat Nature Reserve - selected for their diversity of vegetation type as well as their location in the midst of poor black townships. Lessons learned at these pilot sites will be shared broadly, and the project seeks to develop and initiate the implementation of a strategy to roll out good practice to the rest of the City's biodiversity network that ensures connectivity between sites and links them within catchments and along coastlines.

Strategic Direction :

2 Promote innovative private sector and community involvement in conservation in landscapes surrounding  biodiversity corridors

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