biodiversity and coastal management …...that contribute towards the conservation of biodiversity,...

11 December 2019

Marlene LarosDirector: Biodiversity & Coastal Management

BIODIVERSITY AND COASTAL MANAGEMENT PRIORITIES

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Strategic context

Biodiversity Programme

Coastal Programme

Summary

Presentation outline

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PSP: Transversal delivery and accountability framework



PBSAP at a glance

2015-2025

CapeNature & DEA&DP

And all role-players


PBSAP at a glance

PBES at a glance

The PBSAP gives effect to its Biodiversity Economy Strategy

PBSAP SO 3

PBES

PBSAP

PBES at a glance

Key early BES initiatives

Biodiversity Spatial Plan Implementation

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Ensure smart & sustainable growth:• Positive planning &

land assembly• Disaster risk

reduction• Water security &

ecological resilience

Meet legislative imperatives:• Account for protection needs of ecosystems

• Avoid conflict with national framework

Give effect to constitutional rights

& international obligations

Critical

Biodiversity

Areas (CBAs)

= Map

Land use

guidelines

= Handbook

Biodiversity sector’s input into… SDFs

…Multi-sectoral planning & decision-

making

SEAs

EMFs

IDPs

RSIFs

EIAs

SoE Reporting

NBA

NPAES

Offsets

Zoning

Provincial

Systematic

Biodiversity

Plan

Implementation Strategy

Compliance & Enforcement

Enabling Environment

Awareness & Support

Planning & Decision-Making

Monitoring & Evaluation




Awareness & Support




Capacity & resources

Legislation

Interventions• Biodiversity

Bill to enhance

legal status




Awareness & Support




Legislation

Communication strategy

Interventions• Accessibility

• Launch event

• Media campaign

• Written materials




Awareness & Support





Legislation


Competency building

Positive planning

Interventions• Targeted

workshops (e.g., case officers,

EAPs, specialists)

• Improve SDF review

process• LGMTEC

• Collaborate with Land Assembly



Awareness & Support




Legislation


Competency building

Positive planning

Tracking forward planning

Tracking decisions

Tracking habitat loss

Interventions• CBA

Verification protocol & change log




Awareness & Support





Legislation


Competency building

Positive planning

Tracking forward planning

Tracking decisions

Tracking habitat loss

Interventions• GEF5 Work

Plan for combatting

illegal clearing


PRIORITY BIODIVERSITY ECONOMY INITIATIVES

PBES Economic Sub-Sectors and Value Chains

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Bioprospecting

Wildlife

Ecotourism (Terrestrial, Marine & Coastal Tourism)

Carbon economies, Biomass & Alternative energy

Investment and Asset Classes

Natural Products (e.g. bees and other products)

Fishing

Estuary Management

Ecosystems Infrastructure Investment Framework (EIIF)

Land Restoration & Ecosystem based Adaptation (EbA)

Knowledge management and services

Payments for ecological services (PES)

Other initiatives - Biomimicry

Honeybush

Community of

Practice

Bitou

Agroforestry

Expansion

Keurbooms /

Karatara Payment

for Ecosystem

Services

Ecological Infrastructure Investment Framework

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Linked to SWMP (Strategic Objective 4), the WCCCRS, the EIIF will

enable resilience, manage risk and reduce disasters through

coordinating and prioritizing investment into priority catchments.

Transversal initiative, including DoA, DEDAT, DTPW, DoLG Disaster

Management and CapeNature.

The EIIF will be driven through a partnership with DEA, SANBI, CSIR

and INR. Also BGCMA and Proto CMAs.

Partnership: with national and local government partners as well as

leveraging the investment of national partners and the private,

sector, notably, landowners (WUAs, “virtual WUAs”).

Coordinate investment – NRM, Water Fund, GEF6



– Why? – Need to coordinate investment more effectively

– What? – Risk-based investment prioritisation and monitoring

– Who? – All of us together

– How? - Agree on risk framework and management

– Prioritisation - Provincial-level and priority MUCPs

– Good baselines, monitoring and review

– Prioritise sectoral investment

– Finance mechanisms (biomass export)

– New and novel ways including high job elasticity

– When? – Now and always!

Keurbooms/Karatara Payment for Ecosystem Services

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Background

EIIF - key feature of economic persistence and resilience:

Coordinate investment and activities in priority catchments and water

source areas

Long term goal of restoring the ecological infrastructure

Contribute to sustainable water management and socio-economic

security, project outputs:

• EIIF – a Framework for coordination, prioritization, investment, monitoring

• AISS – Alien invasive species Strategy for the province

• Catchment prioritization and MUCPs for three selected priorities.

• Integrated funding and investment framework

• Implementation and monitoring plan

Payment for Ecosystems Services (PES) approaches in key catchments /

water pricing (Keurbooms / karatara)

AIS value added Industries & biomass economies.

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Cost/benefit of various options to increase water availability

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Making the Business Case – Average unit reference value (URV) of water

generated through various water supply options

https://www.westerncape.gov.za/eadp/files/atoms/files/final_business_case-

implementation_strategy-_karatara_keurbooms_pes_06_nov_2018_Final.pdf

https://www.westerncape.gov.za/eadp/files/atoms/files/final_business_case-implementation_strategy-_karatara_keurbooms_pes_06_nov_2018_Final.pdf

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The value of catchment management and relative ecological benefit derived therefore exceeds R172 million per annum

Keurbooms & Karatara catchments show the greatest potential benefit from clearing

Municipality Average value lost per year

Bitou R 75.6 million

George R 50.4 million

Knysna R 47.1 million

Ecological infrastructure value lost due to alien infestation


Funding for alien clearing – Payment for Ecosystem Services

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The most feasible Economic Policy Instrument for internalizing the value of restored and well-managed catchments – Alien Clearing Water Charge

Funds generated through water rates

Agreement with land owners to clear land via an Alien Clearing Water Charge

Direct beneficiary: WMA downstream of the cleared area:

• Bitou, Knysna and George Local Municipalities & Land owners

Alien clearing & follow-up

Increased water

availability for development

Increased income from water rates

Increased funds for catchment management

Sustainable AIS

management cycle


Project proposal

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Setting up a formal agreement on how to implement Payment for Ecosystem Services in the Keurbooms/Karatara river catchments

DEA&DP has funding to appoint a service provider to engage with municipalities, land owners and others to:

• Broker an agreement to clear aliens through a co-production process

• Identify regulatory, financing and transactional mechanisms

• Navigate the MFMA & other legal requirements

• Draw up M&E requirements

• Identify risks and management responses

• Etc.

What we need:

Buy-in from municipalities, land-owners and other relevant stakeholders to help co-create a PES agreement

Honeybush Community of Practice

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Map of commercially important wild harvested Cyclopia spp.

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Purpose / Objectives

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Address issues of governance

Legislation (compliance and permitting issues)

Sustainability & promotion of the industry

Transformation in the industry

Community upliftment and address TK issues

Knowledge sharing & research

Funding

local value addition & geographic indicators

To add accountability, confidentiality

Biodiversity Management Plan + Guideline / Field guide

Bitou Agroforestry

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Bitou Agroforestry

Two projects – Kranshoek & Harkerville

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Building the business case for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity & ecological infrastructure

Mainstreaming and driving implementation of biodiversity economy

2015 – 2019:

• SMME & community businesses developed

• Business / entrepreneurial training

• Identified markets / brokered deals

• Established trading in Honeybush, vegetables, Sceletium, Bulbine spp.

2019 – 2020:

• EPIP funding = R5 million for upscaling and introducing agroprocessing

• Establish additional / expand current SMMEs

• Value enhancement through organic practices / certification

• Agroprocessing to increase product value – distillation

• Training for organic & permaculture farming, distillation, business & entrepreneurship

• Pilot permaculture garden sites


Bitou Agroforestry

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Bulbine growing

strong

First Sceletium

harvested 2017

KRANSHOEK

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Harkerville

First honeybush

harvested 2017

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• The Department gives effect to the Biosphere Reserves Act and have oversight over the 5 (soon 6?) BRs in the province and provides operational funding.

BRs are globally recognised areas of terrestrial and coastal ecosystemsthat contribute towards the conservation of biodiversity, sustainablemanagement and use of the environment by people.

Biosphere reserves have evolved as mechanisms that promotesymbiotic relationships between people and the environment.

Biosphere Reserves

Provincial Coastal Management Programme

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Context

NEM: ICM Act

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In terms of S38 of the NEM:ICM Act, DEA&DP is the designated provincial leadagency for coastal management in the Western Cape

DEA&DP is responsible for facilitating integrated coastal management in theprovince

DEA&DP is responsible for the implementation various provisions of the NEM: ICMAct and the NEM:ICMA PLS Regulations


Provincial Coastal Management Programme

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ADOPTED IN MARCH 2016: FIVE-YEAR IMPLEMENTATION PLAN


Climate change and blue economy

Implementation

A WC State of the Coast report

• 9 Coastal Themes: (Biodiversity, Estuaries, Socio-Economic conditions, resource use, land use,pollution and waste, vulnerability, cooperativegovernance and Awareness, education andtraining)

• Development of popular material and posters

Support provided to Operation Phakisa initiativesacross the Blue Economy (Coastal Marine Tourism,Aquaculture, Small Habours etc.)

Determination of Coastal Management Lines (CML)for the WC.

Investigated the possible implementationmechanisms to be developed to establish andmanage the CML.



Coastal access

Implementation

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Embarked on projects for coastal access in support of municipalities including:

• The development of the WC Provincial Coastal Access Strategy and Plan to provide a framework for the facilitation of public access to the coast;

• The development of a Model Coastal Access Bylaw for Coastal Municipalities’;

• The commissioning of coastal access audits in:

– Overberg,

– West Coast, and

– Garden Route District Municipalities’,

– as well as the pilot study at the Bot River Estuary mouth.

• Through the coastal access audits the coastline was

classified into typologies in accordance with the

WC PCASP and identifies conflict areas that require

attention by municipalities or other organs of state.

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Estuary management programme

Implementation

Estuary Management Programme:

• Continued monitoring and improvement projects for selected

provincial priority estuaries (BRIP, BREEP)

• Cost benefit analysis for management of Breede Estuary

• Projects to determine floodlines for identified estuaries (Breede River,

Berg River, Groot Brak and Klein Brak)

• Approved Breede EMP

Embarked on a 4 year project in partnership with DEA:O&C for an Estuary

Management Framework and Implementation Strategy.

• Component A: Drafted Mouth Management Plans (MMPs) (10)

• Component B: Develop and update Estuary Management Plans (EMPs)

(33)

• Component C:

– WC EMFIS Estuarine Management Strategy and

Implementation Plan

– Prioritization tool

– Institutional Framework for EAF

– Guidelines on erosion and accretion, dune management,

structures in the littoral active zone and development of draft

bylaw for management of watercraft

– Awareness raising materialICM Lekgotla 2019 43


Western Cape Estuary Management Programme - EMFIS

West Coast

District

Overberg

District

Garden Route

District

City of Cape

Town

Olifants Bot/Kleinmond Goukou Diep/Rietvlei

Verlorenvlei Klein Gouritz Zandvlei

Berg Uilkraals Klein Brak

Breede Groot Brak

Heuningness Knysna

Keurbooms

Estuary Management Plans are being updated for the following list of sixteen (16) estuaries:



West Coast District Overberg District Garden Route (Eden)

District

Sout Buffels DuiwenhoksWadrif/Langvlei Rooiels Blinde

Jakkalsvlei Klipdrifsfontein Gwaing

Ratel Kaaimans

Palmiet Maalgate

Groot (Wes)

Matjies

Piesang

Sout(Oos)

New Estuary Management Plans are being developed and compiled for the following list of seventeen (17) estuaries:



DEA: Estuary Management Workshop Dec 2018

Estuary name Municipal District

1 Verlorenvlei West Coast

2 Jakalsvlei West Coast

3 Onrus Overberg

4 Uilkraals Overberg

5 Klein Overberg

6 Wadrift West Coast

7 Bot/Kleinmond Overberg

8 Klein Brak Garden Route

9 Goukamma Garden Route

10 Groot Brak Garden Route

Mouth Management Plans are being developed and compiled for the following list of ten (10) priority estuaries:


Education, capacity building and outreach

Implementation

Continued successful implementation of capacity building,advocacy and education programmes:

• Through a service provider an education and awarenessprogramme (3yrs) linked to Marine Week activities, tookmobile aquarium to schools with CAPS aligned content forIntermediate phase pupils.

• Environmental events – Coastal Cleanup

• Capacity Building and Training provided annually to partners/ Stakeholders and municipalities on various topics.

Partnerships with Stakeholders(NGO, research institutions), allspheres/relevant departments and District Munics

Coordinated efforts are a must in time of fiscal constraints



Focus for next five years - Biodiversity


Continued implementation and review of PBSAP as a critical climate change and water security response strategy

Outputs and outcomes required for sector MTSF outcomes and indicators – non negotiables – priority biodiversity conserved

Complete legal review - Biodiversity Bill and Regulations

Phased implementation of the approved service delivery model and structure (Staffing)

Respond strategically to legal mandate

Continue to improve strategic alignment and M&E for the performance of CapeNature in terms of the the Cooperation Agreement and the Treasury and other requirements for transfer payments and public entities.

Collaborative and transversal approaches for Ecological Infrastructure investment –long-term Provincial treasury investment and transversal programme for work and economic opportunities – biomass export

Enable policy coherence for planning and decision-making affecting natural resource resilience

Enable provincial institutional framework for biodiversity offsets (All programmes).


Focus for next five years - coastal


Continued implementation and review of PCMP as a critical climate change and spatial resilience response strategy

Positioning the coast as a key economic differentiator

Phased implementation of the approved service delivery model and structure

Enable policy coherence for planning and decision-making affecting coastal resilience, including Provincial Protocol for responding to coastal damage, risk and vulnerability

CML implementation – 3-year programme to land in Zoning Schemes

SOC Monitoring and Reporting System pilot on DMIS

Coastal access - systematic implementation in support of DMs and LMs, including public launch sites

Respond strategically to legal mandate – including carrying forward coastal compliance and enforcement

Continue to improve strategic alignment of CapeNature and municipalities in the performance of their coastal and estuary management mandates

NEMP (amended) implementation - IGRFA IP for estuaries for the RMA function uptake by municipalities with appetite and readiness

Explore delegations of coastal functions, e.g. ORVs to local municipalities

Tel: Fax:

www.westerncape.gov.za

Contact Us

Marlene Laros

Director: Biodiversity & Coastal Management

021 483 5126 021 483 4440

[email protected]

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always

impossible. Doris Lessing

We are the ones we have been waiting for! June Jordan and others

Enkosi Thank You Dankie

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