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Search and Rescue Plan Bayview Wind Farm PLANT SEACRH AND RESCUE PLAN Prepared for: Bayview Wind Power (Pty) Ltd Building 1 Country Club Estate, 21 Woodlands Drive, Woodmead, 2191. Prepared by: EOH Coastal and Environmental Services 76 Regent Road, Sea Point With offices in East London, Johannesburg, Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth (South Africa) www.cesnet.co.za August 2018 Plant Search and Rescue Plan This Report should be cited as follows: EOH Coastal & Environmental Services, August 2018, Bayview Search and Rescue Plan, CES, Cape Town. COPYRIGHT INFORMATION This document contains intellectual property and propriety information that are protected by copyright in favour of EOH Coastal & Environmental Services (CES) and the specialist consultants. The document may therefore not be reproduced, used or distributed to any third party without the prior written consent of CES. The document is prepared exclusively for submission to the Bayview Wind Energy Facility (PTY) Ltd in the Eastern Cape, and is subject to all confidentiality, copyright and trade secrets, rules intellectual property law and practices of South Africa. Coastal & Environmental Services i Bayview Wind Farm AUTHORS Ms Tarryn Martin, Senior Environmental Consultant and Botanical Specialist (Pri.Sci.Nat.) Tarryn holds a BSc (Botany and Zoology), a BSc (Hons) in African Vertebrate Biodiversity and an MSc with distinction in Botany from Rhodes University. Tarryn’s Master’s thesis examined the impact of fire on the recovery of C3 and C4 Panicoid and non-Panicoid grasses within the context of climate change for which she won the Junior Captain Scott-Medal (Plant Science) for producing the top MSc of 2010 from the South African Academy of Science and Art as well as an Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Range and Forage Science from the Grassland Society of Southern Africa. Tarryn specialises in conducting vegetation assessments including vegetation and sensitivity mapping to guide developments and thereby minimise their impacts on sensitive vegetation. She has conducted a number of vegetation and impact assessments in South Africa for renewable energy EIAs and assisted with the botanical baseline survey for the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority Polihali Dam. She has also conducted a number of vegetation surveys, to IFC standards, in Mozambique. She has also worked on a Critical Habitat Assessment for Sasol in Inhambane Province and has co-designed and implemented the Terrestrial Monitoring Program for Kenmare, MOMA, a heavy minerals mine in Mozambique. Coastal & Environmental Services ii Bayview Wind Farm ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS DEA Department of Environmental Affairs DEDEAT Department of Economic Development, Environmental Affairs and Tourism of the Eastern Cape ECO Environmental Control Officer EMPr Environmental Management Programme GIS Geographical Information System NEMBA National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act PNCO Provincial Nature Conservation Ordinance SA South Africa SANBI South African National Biodiversity Institute SCC Species of Conservation Concern TOPS Threatened and Protected Species WEF Wind Energy Facility Coastal & Environmental Services iii Bayview Wind Farm Plant Search and Rescue Plan TABLE OF CONTENTS AUTHORS ............................................................................................................................ II ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................. III TABLE OF CONTENTS ....................................................................................................... 4 1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................... 5 1.1. Purpose of the Plant SEARCH AND Rescue Plan .................................................. 5 1.2. Plant Rescue Principles .......................................................................................... 5 2. SPECIES OF CONSERVATION CONCERN THAT OCCUR ON SITE ......................... 5 3. PLANT SEARCH AND RESCUE PLAN ....................................................................... 7 3.1. Ecological Walkthrough .......................................................................................... 7 3.2. Plant Permits .......................................................................................................... 7 3.3. Nursery Establishment ............................................................................................ 7 3.4. Plant Rescue .......................................................................................................... 7 4. MONITORING SUCCESS RATES AND REPORTING ................................................. 8 5. REFERENCE LIST ....................................................................................................... 9 APPENDIX A ...................................................................................................................... 10 Provincial Nature Conservation Ordinance (PNCO) 19 of 1974 ....................................... 10 NEMBA ........................................................................................................................... 10 List of Protected Tree Species Under the National Forests Act, 1998 (Act No. 84 of 1998) ........................................................................................................................................ 10 APPENDIX B ...................................................................................................................... 11 APPENDIX C ...................................................................................................................... 26 Coastal & Environmental Services 4 Bayview Wind Farm Plant Search and Rescue Plan 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. PURPOSE OF THE PLANT SEARCH AND RESCUE PLAN The purpose of this Plant Search and Rescue Plan is to provide practical guidance on the identification (search) and translocation (recue) of Species of Conservation Concern (SCC) that will be directly impacted by infrastructure associated with the Bayview Wind Farm. This plant search and rescue plan forms part of the broader Environmental Management Programme (EMPr). This plant search and rescue plan provided here based on the ecological survey of the general project area but this must be updated after a walkthrough of the final layout has been conducted by a qualified botanist. 1.2. PLANT RESCUE PRINCIPLES Plant rescue and translocation must be considered as a last resort for conservation of SCC. During the EIA process, the mitigation hierarchy (avoid, minimise, mitigate) would have been applied and the plant search and rescue plan is therefore to mitigate the residual impacts associated with the wind farm infrastructure. However, it must be noted that this is only one of many mitigation measures that must be used. Furthermore, this is only partial mitigation as, although the individuals will be saved (if they survive), the habitat will be permanently lost. Transplanting individuals into alternative sub-populations and conservation areas is not supported as translocation may result in the transmission of pathogens and/or parasites (SANBI, 2018). Therefore, rescued plants should only be used for the rehabilitation of affected areas within the development and/or used in public and botanical gardens for the education of the public. This plant search and rescue plan therefore advocates for the planting of these rescued species on site and within disturbed sites that need to be rehabilitated after construction. 2. SPECIES OF CONSERVATION CONCERN THAT OCCUR ON SITE Species of Conservation Concern (SCC) refer to species that occur on one or more of the following lists (refer to appendix A for a description of each list): Provincial Nature Conservation Ordinance (PNCO) (1974) National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act (No. 10 of 2004) list of Threatened and Protected Species List of Protected Tree Species under the National Forests Act, 1998 (Act No. 84 of 1998) Species listed as Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Near Threatened, Critically Rare, Rare, Declining and Data Deficient on the South African Red Data List. A total of nine (9) species are listed as protected in the Eastern Cape PNCO list, and none (0) on the NEM:BA list. One (1) protected tree species (Sideroxylon inerme) was recorded to occur as scattered individuals within the study area. Species of conservation concern recorded on site, and their conservation status, are listed in Table 2-1 below and some examples Coastal & Environmental Services 5 Bayview Wind Farm Plant Search and Rescue Plan provided in Plat 2-1. The species list in Table 1 of Appendix 1, should also be used to supplement the species in the study area since the current survey was conducted in spring, where species may have been missed, or identification was not possible, due to the absence of identifying features (flowers, etc). Table 2.1: The following protected species in particular were encountered on site: SCIENTIFIC NAME SANBI PNCO PROTECTED TREES Aloe straita cf subsp. striata Least Concern Schedule 4 Boophane disticha Declining Schedule 4 - Carissa bispinosa Least Concern Schedule 4 - Carpobrotus sp. Least Concern Schedule 4 - Delosperma sp. - Schedule 4 - Drosanthemum sp. Least Concern Schedule 4 - Freesia corymbosa Least Concern Schedule 4 - Pachypodium bispinosum Least Concern Schedule 4 - Pachypodium succulentum Least Concern Schedule 4 - Sideroxylon inerme subsp. inerme Least Concern
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