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Interesting read through this document Link

Before timber harvesting was suspended in 2010 the gross income from timber sold from the indigenous forests of the Garden Route (1998 – 2010) was between R 2,240,354.26 and 4,275,560.49 / year.


BTW: Government has given an additional R390m to SANParks for its indigenous forest management on the Garden Route.

Hah,... ag, just some bookkeeping error at play here!!

Sure it will be looked at and corrected on behalf,.......

Well, I suppose they have to get the timber to build the new hotels from somewhere.

Perhaps , but there is also a furniture factory and they deliver school desks as per SANParks social investment programm.

And compost toilets : http://www.gumtree.co.za/cp-other-furni ... -470662490

Here info on the furniture factory from the document “From Fortress Conservation to People and Conservation” – SANParks and a Developmental Approach to Conservation in the 21st Century (July 2012)

6.4 Community Projects: Furniture Factory in the Garden Route National Park
SANParks created the Farleigh Eco-Furniture Factory (FEFF) as a pilot project of an Expanded Public Works Programme – an initiative of the natural resource management Programme of the Department of Environmental affairs.

This project will have the following key impacts apart from job creation:
• contribution to clearing of invasive alien plants, with the spectrum of benefits (water quantity,water quality, biological diversity, productive use of land, soil erosion and other benefits).
• The development of products that are needed by government at costs that are very competitive with – and generally lower than – the prices that are being paid for these products (and which are of superior quality and longevity),will have important benefits for the work of the departments.
• Potential for the sale of the products to nongovernment purchasers. This is particularly a focus of the Eco-coffins, which are intended to reduce the cost of bereavement for the poor.
• Products currently are school desks and benches produced for various government departments.

Furniture for SANParks tourism units: it is envisaged that a great deal of furnishings could ultimately be manufactured to supply most of the needs of SANParks’tourist facilities. The FEFF wasfully equipped during the past two yearsat a cost of approximately r6 million to make provision for the entire process of furniture manufacturing. There are currently 72 people employed in the factory and this will grow to around 100.

Garden Route National Park begins the review of its management plan process next week

06 April 2018

South African National Parks (SANParks) begins the review of its Garden Route National Park (GRNP) management plan next week. This is the first phase of the revision to develop the ‘desired state’ of the GRNP. The ‘Desired State’ sets out the strategic direction for the park and consists of a mission and high level objectives to help achieve the mission. These are informed by the stakeholders to join this exciting journey of co-creating the ‘Desired State’ or dream for the GRNP.

A National Park management plan encourages a shared vision of managing for both current and future generations. The objective of a management plan is to ensure the protection, conservation and management of the protected area concerned in a manner consistent with the objectives of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act (NEM: PAA).

In line with the organisation’s mission of ‘connecting society’, SANParks invites all interested and affected stakeholders and organisations to join workshops to articulate the “Desired State” of the Garden Route National Park. A series of three workshops will be held across the Garden Route to engage with stakeholders from various sectors starting in Tsitsikamma next Monday, the 09th April 2018 then to Knysna on the 10th and Wilderness on the 11th April 2018. Workshops will start at 9h00 sharp, with participants requested to arrive from 8h30 to register and will end by 17h00.

There are additional focus group meetings planned during the 2018/2019 Financial Year to discuss specific components of the plan that will be produced as well as several, open, public meetings to provide feedback on the draft plan early in 2019. All members of the public, organizations, stakeholders and interested parties are encouraged to register on the SANParks website: https://www.sanparks.org/conservation/p ... g_form.php

This will assist the project team to keep in touch with all the registered stakeholders regarding future meetings, announcements and feedback.

For more information, the public is urged to send an email to GardenRoute.NationalPark@sanparks.org or nandi.mgwadlamba@sanparks.org or contact 044 302 5600 for more information.

Boilerplate: The Garden Route National Park (GRNP) is a mosaic of landscapes and seascapes, a haven for birds and animals. It is approximately 175 000 hectares including indigenous forests, lakes, rivers, wetlands and the sea.

The Garden Route National Park consists of the previously proclaimed Tsitsikamma and Wilderness National Parks; the Knysna Lakes Area; as well as the Indigenous Forest and fynbos areas previously managed by the Department of Forestry.

https://www.sanparks.org/about/news/?id=57461

Wonderful 1 working day's notice.

What a load of bloody hogwash, this registration form of theirs!!!!

Will not accept certain criteria entered into their registration form,..
thus cannot register on their database!!!

Goes to show their manipulation of the public participation process
and concern thereoff.

Dear Stakeholders

Thank you for your interest in the Review of the Garden Route National Park management Plan process. Please fill in the registration form which is a requisite to receive all information pertaining to future meetings and to receive regular update. This form requires the detail the RSVP and attendance registers did not.

You also have an option to register online: https://www.sanparks.org/conservation/p ... g_form.php

Please send the forms back as soon as you can.

Kind regards
Nandi Mgwadlamba



Regional Communications Manager

SANParks: Garden Route National Park

Frontier Region

Phone: 044 302 5633 Cellular: 078 702 9663

nandi.mgwadlamba@sanparks.org , www.sanparks.org