AimTo evaluate and enhance the ecosystem servicesprovided within the mining concession of SRL, Sierra Leone.
Ecosystem services in a mining concession
Jan Dick, Tommy Garnett, Scott Jones, A. B. Karim. Kabbie Kenu, Eduard Niesten, Pious Sesay, James Sundufu, Richard Wadsworth, Arnold Williams, Jestina Jusu, Hadji Dabo & Clement AdamsContact [email protected]
DredgeLanti North
2nd Dredge(Under construction)
“Dry” Plant
Mining HQ
Bonjema
Kpetema
Lungi
Moriba Town
Yangatoke
Bamba
Mokoba?
Imperi Chiefdom HQ
Airfield
Wharfe (Nitti)
Belabu
Mining Concession
IUCNNetherlands
Darwin Initiative
EFA
UniversityFoE
International
CSSLRSPB/BirdLife
Fourah Bay /Njala UCFoE SL
Mining Company
EUShareholders SL Govt.
Local Govt.
Traders
Women Groups
Village Elders
Healing & spiritual
Information
Resources
SL Govt. Revenue
Control
Lines of Influence on the mining concession ecosystem(actor – network)
BuyersKnight Piésold
and Co.
SchoolsCEH
NGOs Stakeholders
Mining site (Landsat ETM+ false colour composite). The artificial lakes are dark blue, mangrove wetlands dark green, bare ground pink and white
Mobimbi
Lanti South
Bonjema
Bamba-Belebu
KpetemaShan
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0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5Aerial insects Nocturnal insects Ground dwelling insects
Mobimbi
Lanti South
BambaBelebu
Cou
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0
50
100
150
200
250No. individuals birds surviedNo. of species No . of families
Mangrove swamp
Economic analysis of investing in protected
area, possibly for integration into national protected area system
e.g. mangrove wetlands.
1.Identify and numerate componentsSurvey of social, environmental and economic factors
2. Test enhancement options
Site DescriptionMobimbi Isolated patch of tall forest. Very hilly and rocky area close to SRL HQ,
threat of farming on the other side. Top soil enriched by presence foliage and litter
Lanti South
Mixture of farmland and secondary forest regrowth with some swamp. Top soil enriched by presence foliage and litter.
Lanti Canal at Bonjema
Incomplete reclamation of a canal constructed to move the dredge. Replanted with Acacia species and and few Anacardium occidentale and Elaeis guineensis.
Bamba Adjacent to area mined between 1986 and 1989- rehabilitation activities cashew (Anacardium occidentale) and Acacia species
Belebu Adjacent to areas mined between 1986 and 1989- rehabilitation activities cashew (Anacardium occidentale) and coconut (Cocus nurifera)
Kpetema pond
Adjacent to sand mounds and an extensive (~7km long) lake at this site
3. Experimental Restoration Very poor growing conditions on the sand tailings following mining (~0.07% C and ~0.003% N). The
project encouraged a decentralised business reclamation initiative - compost and seedling
production in local villages
Planting sand tailingMid-June 2007
Demonstration plot Late-August 2007
Village compost pitMay 2007