the richtersveld cultural and botanical landscape - SAHRA
the richtersveld cultural and botanical landscape - SAHRA
the richtersveld cultural and botanical landscape - SAHRA
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Richtersveld Cultural <strong>and</strong> Botanical L<strong>and</strong>scape World Heritage Site Nomination 127<br />
• Provision of accredited <strong>and</strong> non accredited training to 75 people in tourism<br />
<strong>and</strong> business training<br />
• Marketing of <strong>the</strong> Conservancy<br />
Global Environment Facility (GEF; on-going until 2010) which is developing an<br />
Environmental Management System <strong>and</strong> an Environmental Response Plan for <strong>the</strong><br />
communal areas of <strong>the</strong> Richtersveld, comprising <strong>the</strong> Conservancy <strong>and</strong> its buffer<br />
zones of <strong>the</strong> Communal Grazing Areas. It is also planning to map <strong>the</strong> biological<br />
assets of <strong>the</strong> two areas.<br />
The Richtersveld Company for Sustainable Development (RCSD), an NGO<br />
established by <strong>the</strong> Richtersveld Municipality, has received a grant of US$887,000<br />
from <strong>the</strong> GEF to implement <strong>the</strong> Richtersveld Community Biodiversity Conservation<br />
Project (RCBCP). The goal of <strong>the</strong> project is to protect <strong>the</strong> globally significant<br />
biodiversity of <strong>the</strong> Succulent Karoo biome through a strong system of communitybased<br />
biodiversity conservation in partnership with key stakeholders.<br />
Specific activities <strong>and</strong> services will include:<br />
• A systematic conservation planning assessment;<br />
• An environmental planning <strong>and</strong> development system <strong>and</strong> manual;<br />
• Legal support to <strong>the</strong> Richtersveld Community Conservancy;<br />
• An ecological management plan <strong>and</strong> grazing management plans;<br />
• A community-based biodiversity monitoring <strong>and</strong> rapid response system;<br />
• Training <strong>and</strong> capacity building;<br />
• Assistance towards exp<strong>and</strong>ing <strong>the</strong> Financial Sustainability Plan for <strong>the</strong><br />
Conservancy;<br />
• Financial, administrative <strong>and</strong> institutional arrangements for <strong>the</strong><br />
Conservancy;<br />
• Infrastructure plans including dirt roads upgrade, alien vegetation removal,<br />
signage, boardwalks, fencing, bushcamps <strong>and</strong> site rehabilitation;<br />
• Tourism marketing <strong>and</strong> responsible tourism guidelines for operators;<br />
• Museum installations <strong>and</strong> awareness raising brochures.