GARDEN ROUTE NEWS - The Southern Cape Landowners Initiative (SCLI) will be hosting a seminar on 23 and 24 November in Knysna on the environmental recovery of the Garden Route ecology, following the fires that destroyed huge areas of vegetation in the area earlier this year.
Read more about the Knysna Fires here.
The seminar will be co-hosted by the Garden Route Rehabilitation Initiative (GRRI), Eden District Municipality, the Southern Cape Fire Protection Association, Knysna Municipality, Working on Fire, and Nelson Mandela University's Sustainability Research Unit.
In terms of an earlier SCLI seminar in 2017, this seminar will also reflect on other areas in the Garden Route such as Still Bay and Wilderness that fall outside the Knysna burn scar.
Focusing on all efforts aimed at rehabilitating severely affected natural habitats, along the sensitive coastline and inland areas, the seminar will reflect on:
• What has been done in terms of ecological rehabilitation since the fires swept through the area;
• Aim to find agreement on the current state of affairs;
• Enlighten landowners and stakeholders on what is planned for 2018 and beyond;
• Give recognition to those who participated thus far.
All conservation efforts dealing with the areas affected by the fires were consolidated into the Garden Route Rehabilitation Initiative (GRRI), and more specifically, the GRRI Environmental Work Stream.
All key stakeholders in the environmental sector in the Garden Route will be participating and/or presenting on what their roles are. Private and public landowners and land managers will be among those present and a field visit will be made to Brenton Corridor and selected sites in the Knysna burn scar.
The objectives of the field visits are to update the media on physical changes to the environment after spring rains; to indicate the effect that environmental intervention / rehabilitation efforts had on the environment and visit sensitive areas in the Brenton peninsula,Western Heads and Featherbed Bay to highlight where there are concerns/threats to the environment.
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