Category: IAP Eradication

  • Processing of IAP Biomass could be good news for environment

    Processing of IAP Biomass could be good news for environment

      Industrial-scale processing of invasive alien plant biomass as a valuable resource could be good news for the environment “South Africa is perhaps one of the hardest-hit countries in the world as far as the impact of invasive alien plants is concerned, and the impact thereof is steadily on the increase,” says Cobus Meiring of Continue Reading →

  • Local technology offers environmental rehabilitation options

    Local technology offers environmental rehabilitation options

    23 October 2020 “Land management requires planning, budgeting, prioritisation, sustained effort and making use of appropriate and affordable technology options that bear optimal results,” says Cobus Meiring of the Southern Cape Landowners Initiative (SCLI). “Posing a real threat to South African agricultural productivity and food security, thousands of hectares of fertile soil are covered with nutrient-sapping invasive Continue Reading →

  • Common invasive alien plants of the Garden Route

    Common invasive alien plants of the Garden Route

      Training Material compiled by Priscilla Burgoyne. Please click on document title below to open/download PDF.   SCLI Alien Invasive Species Training_P Burgoyne Oct 2020_Part1   SCLI Alien Invasive Species Training_P Burgoyne Oct 2020_Part2

  • More about Invasive Alien Plant (IAP) Control Plans

    More about Invasive Alien Plant (IAP) Control Plans

      The objective of the invasive alien plant control plan The objective of the invasive alien plant control plan is to bring the recorded invasive alien plants under control through systematic, integrated and appropriate control methods within (1-10) years that will allow indigenous vegetation to recover, reduce fire risk, and improve water security.  Legislative context Continue Reading →

  • IAP Workshop for Landowners – Feedback

    IAP Workshop for Landowners – Feedback

      Dear Landowner Lockdown period: SCLI assistance, training and feedback to landowners SCLI concluded its landowner training and feedback session on Thursday 19 March on the eve of the national lockdown. Please see some key presentations/information from the training workshop below for your information, including information guiding landowners step-by-step on how to ensure that they Continue Reading →

  • Uitroei van indringerplante

    Uitroei van indringerplante

    INLIGTINGSTUK VIR GRONDEIENAARS Uitroei van indringerplante Indringerplante in die Suid-Kaap het na die wegholbrande van 2017/2018 met mening teruggegroei. Hoewel bewaringsinstansies en munisipaliteite in die streek verskeie aksies in die streek bestuur om indringerplante te bekamp en oor die lantermyn uit te roei, kan dit nie suksesvol sonder die samewerking van grondeienaars gedoen word nie. Continue Reading →

  • Example of an Invasive Alien Plant Control Plan – Roodefontein

    Example of an Invasive Alien Plant Control Plan – Roodefontein

      Click on the document title (Roodefontein Control Plan) to download an example of an Invasive Alien Plant Control Plan. Roodefontein_Control Plan

  • SUMMARY: Herbicide applications for some invasive alien plants

    SUMMARY: Herbicide applications for some invasive alien plants

    Overview  Download the Herbicide Pamphlet for an overview of some of the most aggressive invasive alien plants of the Garden Route. See table for recommended products. Guidelines for the use of the specific products are published elsewhere on the website under the heading IAP Eradication/Individual Product Information Sheets. Click on the document title below to download Continue Reading →