| Abstract |
The Garden Route region of South Africa, within the Cape Floristic Region, is an area of outstanding global biodiversity importance - renowned for its species richness and endemism. The area, with its tall forests unique in the country, is also extremely vulnerable to climate change, with documented increases in recent years in flooding, drought, coastal erosion and fire that are occurring as a consequence of increased climate variability and inappropriate land use and management. |
| Objective |
The project will bring together key stakeholders from the local and national levels to apply a landscape approach – working to create a mosaic of land uses that maximizes both biodiversity conservation and healthy ecosystem functioning – with the specific intent of enhancing climate risk management capabilities. This will be achieved by improving land management and rehabilitation work on private land, with new land brought under protection in corridors, as well as better management of existing protected areas. |
