The Wild Coast Conservation and Sustainable Development Project is now complete and the final documents can be downloaded from this site:
www.wildernessfoundation.org

Please see the Wild Coast Conservation section and the following pages for Wild Coast planning documents and background information:

Heavy Minerals Mining

Xolobeni Mining
Xolobeni Tourism Cost Benefit Analysis

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Tourism Investments at Xolobeni, Wild Coast
Presented to the Wilderness Foundation July 2005 by Grant Thornton

>> NB ! download the final draft here .

Executive Summary [Read more…]

Posted on May 17th, 2007 by admin
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Download this paper as a printable PDF: Pondo Fish : Ichtfaunal survey of the Pondoland coast

We have recently had a paper published in African Journal of Marine Science (see attached) on the ichthyofauna of the new Pondoland MPA. There were no new species discovered but a couple of range extensions which were quite interesting. We have another paper in press with the same journal documenting the invertebrate and algal biodiversity of the region. A possible new species of algae was collected and I can send you the PDF of the paper as soon as it is published. [Read more…]

Posted on April 15th, 2007 by admin
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VAL PAYN ART EXHIBITION

BLUE CATERPILLAR GALLERY –BUTTERFLIES FOR AFRICA

PIETERMARITBURG – 7 APRIL to 7 May 2007

Posted on April 7th, 2007 by admin
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Dear Val,

Would it be possible to forward this to people on your SWC mailing list, who may be interested in this current publication?

Don’t miss this very special edition of PlantLife!

PlantLife’s special, full-colour combined Issue 33 and 34 is an engrossing account of the Pondoland Centre of Endemism, which extends from just north of Port St John’s to the Msikaba Formation sandstone gorges of the Oribi Gorge.

This issue is the work of Tony Abbot, [Read more…]

Posted on March 19th, 2007 by admin
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