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Ecological Consulting

1. Botanical surveys and specialist assessment

2. Veld assessment (grazing capacity)

3. Baseline veld monitoring

4. Ecological restoration advice for Karoo

SACNSP Professional Natural Scientist (Reg. No. 400047/08)

Click here to download Guidelines for veld restoration

Please click here to read our CV's

SJ Milton CV WRJ Dean CV

Reports on Veld Restoration and Ecological Management

Milton, S.J. Rapid Assessment Method for Renosterveld, 2007.

Milton, S.J. Feasibility and benefits of veld rehabilitation following control of invasive Prosopis in the Calvinia area, 2010.

Milton, S.J. & Dean, W.R.J. 2010. The basis for sustainable business in the Karoo: bringing together ecological and economic issues. Journal of Development Support 2: 58 - 66 Our thanks to Prof Doreen Atkinson, the editor of “Journal of Development Support”, for permission to put this publication on our website.

Milton, S.J. Road-verge Vegetation Management Guidelines for Eden District Municipality, 2011. Table Mountain Fund (TMF) via the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa (WESSA) sponsored the roadside biodiversity management training project.

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Advisors and collaborators

Africa’s Search for Sound Economic Trajectories
An interdisciplinary and multi-institutional not-for-profit NGO and public benefit organisation, focusing on collaborative research and capacity-building with regard to the economy/ecology interface in sub-Saharan Africa .

www.assetresearch.org.za

Cape Nature http://www.capenature.co.za/

The Arid Areas Programme of the Centre for Development Support focuses on socio-economic development in the arid areas, the underdeveloped hinterland of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. It actively seeks to promote linkages with natural scientists to find solutions for poverty in rural areas. http://www.aridareas.co.za

Conservation Management Services – Ken Coetzee

4 Chestnut Street, Heather Park, George 6529

Tel/Fax: 044 – 8708472;

Email: consken@mweb.co.za

Providing innovative planning, design and advice for wildlife/habitat management; natural resource inventories; habitat rehabilitation, resource utilization and sensitive eco-tourism development to landowners, authorities and the eco-tourism industry.

Department of Agriculture Western Cape

Plant Production: Natural Veld:

http://www.elsenburg.com/trd/plantprod/natveld.html

Worcester Veld Reserve:

http://www.elsenburg.com/trd/farms/worcester.html

Chris Marais and Julienne du Toit, freelance photo-journalists
PO Box 835, Cradock,5880, Tel/Fax: +27 (0) 48 881 2660, website: www.karoospace.co.za

RIVERINE RABBIT WORKING GROUP

The Riverine Rabbit Working Group (EWT-RRWG) was established in August 2003 and is delegating and coordinating all conservation efforts on the critically endangered Riverine Rabbit and its habitat. The group is so far the only non-governmental conservation institution based and operating in the Great and Klein Karoo region (Nama and Succulent Karoo) and understands its critical role in future conservation, environmental education, in building capacity and leaders in previously disadvantaged local communities of the Karoo. Due to the remote location of the Karoo it is a challenge for the group to engage future multidisciplinary research and to link with existing conservation, environmental education and research initiatives. The Riverine Rabbit (Bunolagus monticularis) is endemic to the semi-arid Great Karoo and parts of the Klein Karoo of South Africa and one of the most endangered terrestrial mammals of Southern Africa . With an estimation of a few hundred animals being left in the wild today the species is facing an extremely high risk of extinction!

RNC Alliance http://www.rncalliance.org/ Restoring Natural Capital worldwide.

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Clients

African Relish Cookery School www.africanrelish.com

Aurecon http://www.aurecongroup.com/en/Locations/Africa/South%20Africa/Pretoria/Pretoria.aspx

CCA Environmental http://www.ccaenvironmental.co.za/

www.edendm.co.za/

Ferret Mining http://www.ferretmining.co.za/

Geo-Consult International (Pty) Ltd info@geoconsult.co.za

Jeffaries & Green http://www.jgi.co.za/

Kwezi-V3 http://www.kweziv3.com/

Nama Karoo Foundation www.namakaroo.org

Prince Albert Municipality pamun@xsinet.co.za

Prince Albert Tourism http://www.patourism.co.za

"The Wilderness Foundation is a conservation organisation that encourages, plans and manages wild lands and wilderness, uplifts the knowledge and lives of historically disadvantaged citizens, and stimulates an environmental ethos among current and future leaders." www.wildernessfoundation.org.za