Vegetation Zonation
Forum Post By Walter Mupezuweni / 9 September, 2021 - 21:39
Spatial Planning
South Africa
Can blended finance help increase investment in southern Africa's community-based conservation?
Forum Post By Jessica Smith / 19 June, 2020 - 16:10
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Sustainable Development Goals
Hot off the Press! UNDP and ILCN launch a new report on Privately Protected Areas, analysing status in 30 countries
Forum Post By Heena Ahmed / 4 September, 2019 - 03:40
South Africa Country Profile: International Outlook for Privately Protected Areas
By Heena Ahmed / 4 September, 2019 - 02:01 
This country profile is part of a study entitled, "Myron, E., Fabiano, C., and Ahmed, H. International Outlook for Privately Protected Areas: Summary Report. International Land Conservation Network (a project of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy) - United Nations Development Programme, 2019.". The summary report provides an overview of the status of Privately Protected Areas in 30 countries throughout Latin America, Asia, the Pacific, and Sub-Saharan Africa. It summarizes the legal, policy, and institutional mechanisms used in these countries to establish and incentivize PPAs.
Draft Biodiversity Status Maps for Your 6NR – South Africa
By Annie Virnig / 19 March, 2019 - 03:11
At the beginning of the 6NR process, we challenged Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity to double the number of maps used from your 5NR to your 6NR. Are you on track to meet this challenge? We have exciting news for you! Using the UN Biodiversity Lab, and the global datasets available within it, we created 18 draft biodiversity status maps for your country.
PA Business Plan Catalogue - Business Plan for the Proposed Kogelberg Marine Park
By Prudence Raine / 20 February, 2019 - 09:43
The Government of Seychelles-UNDP-GEF Protected Area Finance and Outer Islands projects hosted a Business Planning workshop for Protected Areas in Seychelles in September 2017. In preparation for this training, a database containing examples of terrestrial and marine business plans from around the world and guidelines for their development was produced. We are sharing in this post the Business Plan for the Proposed Kogelberg Marine Park.
[EN-FR-ES] Survey on small nature-based enterprises: What do you want to learn?
Forum Post By Martin Sommerschuh / 18 October, 2018 - 01:50
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Learning Opportunity
Implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in South Africa | Webinar presentation
By Diego Ochoa / 12 September, 2018 - 03:39
Ms. Ntakadzeni Tshidada (Deputy Director, Biosafety and Invasive Alien Species at the Department of Environmental Affairs of South Africa) made this presentation this during the NBSAP Forum webinar session on the 15th Anniversary of the Entry into Force of Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
For more information on the webinar session, please click here. Watch this recording and all other NBSAP Forum sessions in the NBSAP Forum Youtube channel.
Eye on Earth Webinar: Effective Communication for Sustainable Development - Distracting People with Reality
Forum Post By Heena Ahmed / 1 May, 2017 - 17:01
Date: May 03, 2017 at 1:30 PM GMT Register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3724766445296304642 ABSTRACT: Over the last 4 years, World Resource Institute, a global research organization, and Vizzuality, a missio
Biodiversity Mainstreaming
Legal Framework for Protected Areas: South Africa I IUCN
By Heena Ahmed / 1 April, 2017 - 14:50 
This case study considers South Africa’s contemporary protected areas regime, as principally reflected
in the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act 2003. It commences with a discussion
of the key challenges which compelled the government to rethink its approach to protected areas
including: poor conservation planning; the adoption of an exclusionary approach to conservation;
exceedingly fragmented institutional and legislative frameworks; inconsistent declaration and
