Service
Biodiversity and Conservation
expertise
- Board member for two clients ensuring judicious management of private nature reserves.
- Assisting numerous clients with applications for private nature reserves in terms of the NEMPAA.
- Successfully engaging with Eskom to re-route transmission lines to avoid high biodiversity areas on a property declared a private nature reserve.
- Vast experience in dealing with South African biodiversity and permitting regime.
- Acting for clients in advising on rare species breeding programmes, import and export laws.
- Assisting clients with complying with disease free buffalo breeding laws.
- Advising clients regarding stud game breeding- sustainability and compliance.
- Risk assessments for clients in terms of non-permitted TOPS species- particularly elephants.
- Drafting compliance documents for clients required under NEMPAA private nature reserve status- such as declaration agreements and management plans.
Project experience
- Advising Matlabas Custodians (a Limpopo based Community rights organisation) regarding high impact developments and biodiversity custodianship.
- Board member of Mogolriver Game Farm (Pty) Ltd, (2009 – 2021) a big 5 reserve in the Waterberg. Responsible for all management oversight issues, incorporation of the farm into a greater reserve and had the reserve declared a private Nature reserve in terms of the Protected Areas Act.
- Board member of Phuza Moya Private Game Reserve (Pty) Ltd (2017 – present) a private game reserve in the Blyde-Olifants Conservancy. Responsible for all aspects of management oversight on the farm, representing shareholder interests.
- Assisted Kranskoppie Boerdery (Pty) Ltd regarding a land rights dispute with a mining company and by order of court had the property declared a private nature reserve in terms of the Protected Areas Act.
- Engaging with Eskom regarding optimal routing of transmission lines on Merensky-Foskor and Delta-Epsilon transmission lines.
- Advising Thaba Tholo (Pty) Ltd on rare species breeding programmes including TOPS species import and export laws.
- Advising Phuza Moya Private Game Reserve (Pty) Ltd regarding disease free buffalo breeding programme laws.
- Risk assessments for Mogolriver Game Farm (Pty) Ltd for non-permitted TOPS species- particularly elephants.
- Board member of the Endangered Wildlife Trust Ethics Committee.
- Pro Bono attorneys for Birdlife SA.
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