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51-57 of 57 for the Category : Conservation and the Subcategory : BiodiversityStrategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
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A strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is an environmental assessment that is carried out on one or more strategic actions, policies, plans or programmes. Whereas an EIA studies a physical project, the SEA looks at policies, plans, ideas and prog
Read more about Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)The African Sausage Tree
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In keeping with its common name, the Sausage Tree fruits look like giant grey-green sausages. Measuring about 30 to 60cm long the fruits hang on stalks from the tree. Long, open sprays of large, wrinkled, maroon or dark red trumpet-shaped flowers tha
Read more about The African Sausage TreeThe Green/Brown Debate
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The so-called ‘Green/Brown Debate’ only became prominent in the early to mid 1990s when community environmental Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) entered the wildlife/ environmental debate. ‘Green’ means a more wildlife focus while ‘Bro
Read more about The Green/Brown DebateTransfrontier (Peace) Parks
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The Peace Parks Foundation, a Section 21 company not for gain, was started in February 1997 to facilitate the establishment of transfrontier conservation areas, which are also commonly referred to as peace parks.
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Tropical rain forests appear like a girdle around the equator and occupy approximately 8% of the earth's land surface, yet they comprise about half of all growing wood on the face of the earth and provide habitats for at least two fifths of all the
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Wetlands (vleis, bogs, swamps, sponges or marshes) are vital ecosystems, which have been described as some of the most productive in the world.
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Under the IUCN’s Framework for Protected Areas the highest form of protection an area can achieve is a Wilderness Area.
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