ALIEN PLANT CONTROL AND THE NRM APPROACH Bridget Munyantore, ERS - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

ALIEN PLANT CONTROL AND THE NRM APPROACH Bridget Munyantore, ERS

HOW WE TACKLE IT… • Recognise paradox • Respect legislation species in landscape (NEMBA etc) • Need to manage alien • Apply DEA NRM & EPWP plants norms & standards

RATIONALE • Current NRM approach is sub-optimal, unrealistic, and unsustainable. Hectares and dependancy increasing • By taking a holistic management approach and embedding alien management within wider landscape into the main livelihood activity of communal farmers , we are testing a new sustainability model for long-term ecosystem health and provisioning

STRATEGIC APPROACH • COMPLY WITH DEA NORMS & EPWP PROCEDURES • MODIFY APPROACH TO MEET WIDER LANDSCAPE NEEDS (restoration of ecological infrastructure) • LINK WITH LIVELIHOOD STRATEGIES (savings groups, livestock farming, food security, etc)

BY IMPROVING LAND USE IN LIVING LANDSCAPES, WE ARE SECURING: HEALTHY ECOSYSTEM SERVICES & FUNCTIONS • SOUND GRASSLAND COMPOSITION & BASAL COVER

IMPLEMENTING APPROACH • Awareness & planning with leadership • Target rangeland areas – pick your battle zones • Training and equipping beneficiaries • Teams clear areas, map and report to DEA • Ecorangers maintain cleared areas, assist with follow up • Post alien clearing maintenance through appropriate livestock management to ‘’kickstart’damaged areas • Incentives (stipends, in kind, Ecoranger support etc for compliance monitoring and guidance.

Enabling Paying wages restoration for for productive eradication landscapes through through projects livelihood incentives

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