Uilkraals Situation Assessment - Anchor Environmental

Table 13.Overberg District Spatial Development Framework (SDF)Component Strategy with spatial implications Strategy without spatial implicationsProtectedAreasNatureEstuaries, Lakes andNatural Water BodiesNatural resources• Rocks• Soils• Minerals1. Expand statutory conservationstatus to at least 12% of the ODM;2. Establish protected nature areas inconservation worthy habitats;3. Consolidate statutory and de factonature areas to form extensivecontinuous tracts of conservationland;4. Link important statutoryconservation areas;5. Establish conservancies on suitableprivately‐owned land.1. Ensure long‐term protection ofestuaries, lakes, and natural waterbodies.2. Ensure effective management andconservation of catchments.1. Regulate the exploitation andutilisation of all geological andmineral resources to limitecological and aesthetic damage;2. Regulate miming in accordancewith the SPCs;3. Limit loss of agricultural soil to a‘tolerable’ level (10tonnes/ha/annum)1. Conserve the ecological and social integrity of natural areas and provide a broad spectrum of compatible outdoorrecreational opportunities;2. Improve efficiency of conservation authorities and state departments;3. Rationalise departmental functions;4. Centralise the management of all statutory conservation areas;5. Determine and regulate carrying capacity in accordance with ecological requirements;6. Restore degraded sites or conservation areas;7. Institute plans and programmes for managing statutory conservation areas;8. Ensure constructive public involvement in environmental conservation;9. Foster public acceptance of ownership and responsibility for specific conservation areas;10. Collect public funds for management of specific conservation areas;11. Ensure educated public interest and involvement in nature conservation and in the management of conservationareas.1. Protect all estuaries and river mouths from developmental impact;2. Improvement of the current knowledge base.1. Impose and monitor soil conservation programmes in all sectors;2. Conserve biodiversity and the life‐supporting natural processes and functions of ecosystems;3. Rehabilitate soil erosion sites;4. Institute programmes for managing indigenous and alien vegetation;5. Control all alien plant infestations;6. Apply appropriate land‐use guidelines in accordance with SPCs;7. Determine and monitor erosion sites;8. Apply appropriate management practises;9. Control construction of new dams.10. Regulate all mining in accordance with the applicable legislation;11. Ensure effective rehabilitation of mining sites;12. Control all forms of mining.Uilkraals Estuary Situation Assessment 56Anchor Environmental