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Camdeboo-Mountain Zebra National Park Corridor: Opportunities for Conservation and Socio-Economic Development Camdeboo-Mountain Zebra National Park Corridor: Opportunities for Conservation and Socio-Economic Development Matthew Norval Abstract—The Wilderness Foundation, in partnership with South The Mountain Zebra National Park Complex is an identi- African National Parks has initiated a two year project in the Karoo; fied Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) priority The Mountain Zebra-Camdeboo Corridor Project. Through either with the prioritization based on the presence of a range voluntary Contractual National Park or Protected Environment of Red Listed Species (especially the larger charismatic agreements, the project aims to work with, rather than displace, threatened mammals), the potential importance as a climate current conservation-compatible land-use practices such as eco- change adaptation corridor, and to a lesser extent for the tourism, livestock grazing and other sustainable resource use. Less delivery of ecosystem goods and services. The area forms a formal conservation options, such as biodiversity agreements, will large part of a corridor known as the Amathole-Sneeuberg also be offered to landowners. These agreements provide benefits Montane Belt, and now also contains the recently identified to landowners in terms of protecting the environment as well as Sneeuberg Centre of Endemism. contributing towards the conservation of threatened wildlife spe- The project aims to capitalise on the opportunities created cies. Protection contributes to safeguarding the recently-identified through the emergence of a significant private conservation Sneeuberg Centre of Endemism, part of the Amathole-Sneeuberg land holding in the area with land use compatible for formal Montane Belt. The project will stimulate conservation-friendly inclusion as contractual national parks. If this opportunity economic development in the region while protecting it from inap- is not pursued immediately there is a danger that the con- propriate development. It is envisaged that the outcome of the project solidation of this complex will not be possible in the future will be a mosaic of properties, including both SANParks-managed due to fragmentation of land parcels and irreversible impacts and privately-owned land. from incompatible land use. The first phase of the project is being implemented through a partnership between Wilderness Foundation, a Non- Government Conservation Organisation, and South African National Parks and is being implemented over a two-year Introduction ______________________ period that commenced in March 2012 and concludes in February 2014. The idea of a corridor between the Camdeboo and Mountain The aim of the project is to create a conservation corridor Zebra National Parks was first officially proposed in 2003 through either Contractual National Park or Protected and more recently South African National Parks (SANParks) Environment agreements with private landowners, and identified an opportunity to consolidate and expand the through doing so stimulate conservation-friendly economic protected area estate in an area stretching from Mountain development in the region and protect it from inappropriate Zebra National Park (MZNP) to Camdeboo National Park development. Both these are categories of formal protected by means of voluntary contractual agreements with private area which represent significant benefits in terms of protec- landowners. The project footprint includes one of the top tion by national legislation and provide long term security three identified priorities for large formal protected areas of conservation tenure (e.g. National Park status completely within the grassland biome. protects areas from prospecting and mining, while Protected Environment status provides significant protection). The Contractual National Park category is most suitable for larger conservation and ecotourism operations, while the Protected Environment category is focused on ensuring the effective management of landscapes (especially rangeland and sustainable resource use areas). In addition, the project will offer less formal conservation options to landowners (e.g. biodiversity agreements). The project will not be looking Matthew Norval, Director Conservation Programme, Wilderness Foundation at purchasing land but rather aims to voluntarily include South Africa; Email: [email protected] privately owned and managed land as part of the corridor. In: Watson, Alan; Carver, Stephen; Krenova, Zdenka; McBride, Brooke, The project will work with, rather than displace, current comps. 2015. Science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness conservation-compatible land-use practices such as appro- values: Tenth World Wilderness Congress symposium; 2013, 4-10 October; priately managed rangeland, eco-tourism and sustainable Salamanca, Spain. Proceedings RMRS-P-74. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Depart- resource use areas (such as hunting). The expected outcome ment of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 208 p. of the project is an enlarged and consolidated corridor of for- USDA Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-74. 2015 141 Norval Camdeboo-Mountain Zebra National Park Corridor: Opportunities for Conservation and Socio-Economic Development mally protected areas made up of a matrix of both privately The corridor concept has a number of advantages. Most and SANParks managed land that addresses various con- threats to critical habitats actually originate far from the servation objectives, e.g., reducing the threat from natural sites and well outside of the control of park managers and gas prospecting; encouraging conservation compatible range conservationists, like decisions made by national and pro- management; improving the protection of endangered spe- vincial governments or the pressures of changing market cies; and stimulating a sustainable agriculture, eco-tourism demands. Conservation corridors, however, can help foster and conservation driven economy. and encourage collaboration among stakeholders at all scales. The objective of the corridor is: To maintain the current Planning a corridor is essentially creating a sustainable landscape in terms of its scenic, biodiversity and landscape landscape that’s optimized for both human and nonhuman values through collective action by the private landowners inhabitants over the long term (Lane 2008). and to protect the area from detrimental developments. Challenges and the Project Conservation Corridors Defined _____ Approach ________________________ Biodiversity conservation corridors are strategically lo- Successful corridor planning must involve a thorough cated regions that link key habitats for plants and animals, understanding of local and regional communities and their including protected areas. Typically they can be broad land- economic needs. This then needs to be followed by a strategy scapes that cover a range of land uses, including agriculture, for addressing those needs while achieving the biodiversity human settlements, and in certain cases even industrial goals set for the corridor. activities (Lane 2008). Conservation strategies at the landscape scale inevitably Broadly speaking, corridors connect fragmented habitats revolve around the question of development versus conserva- and protected areas and play a number of roles that can tion and this is very much the case in the Karoo. Challenges include: conserving threatened species; protecting terri- include generating information on tradeoffs and costs, and tory needed by wide ranging species; sustaining natural also finding the synergies that exist between the economic processes, like water cycles and pollination; and developing tools and options including more productive agricultural solutions that protect nature while supporting human well- practices and ecotourism—to support development while being (Lane, 2008). lowering the costs of conservation to the government and local people Figure 1—Map indicating the Corridor planning domain in relation to the two anchor national parks. 142 USDA Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-74. 2015 Camdeboo-Mountain Zebra National Park Corridor: Opportunities for Conservation and Socio-Economic Development Norval Figure 2—The Mountain Zebra Camdeboo Corridor is characterised by typical Arid Karoo landscapes. Photo credit: Chris Marais / Wilderness Foundation. The project will focus on a planning domain (project protected area made up of a matrix of both privately and footprint) of 530,000 ha. Existing privately owned, but not SANParks managed land that addresses the conservation formally protected conservation areas cover 97,000 ha within challenges of the region. the corridor, and includes well established privately owned Some risks do exist mostly related to landowner willingness nature reserves. but the project team believes that this can be overcome as The Camdeboo-Mountain Zebra Corridor has significant a result of clear planning and implementation. This view is biodiversity value and meets the criteria of the National based on some successful initial work already undertaken Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act (No.57 in the area. of 2003) for the declaration as a Protected Environment A dedicated project manager has been appointed and is (to be known as the Mountain Zebra Camdeboo Protected based in Camdeboo National Park and in Graaff-Reinet and Environment: MZCPE). they are responsible for the day to day management of the The purpose of the MZCPE is captured in the motivation project and coordinating the implementation of the work for its proclamation.
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