2014 SYMPOSIUM OF CONTEMPORARY CONSERVATION PRACTICE 3-7 November 2014 Fern Hill Conference Centre, Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, MONDAY, 3 November 2014 10h00-13h00 REGISTRATION

13h00-14h00 LUNCH

SESSION 1 - FERN THEATRE

14h00-15h30 PLENARY OPENING SESSION

Chairman of the Board, Wildlands Chair Prof Rob Fincham Conservation Trust Time Speaker Organisation Title

Dr Bandile Chief Executive Officer, Ezemvelo KZN 14:00-14:10 Welcome and Opening of the Symposium Mkhize Wildlife

Deputy Director General, Department 14:10-14:50 Dr Guy Preston KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Alien invasions - update on threat to conservation and on status and interventions in South Africa of Environment Affairs

14:50-15:10 Nandipha Bhengu Department of Environment Affairs Monitoring of South Africa’s Protected Areas Management Effectiveness: a national evaluation of progress since 2010 baseline study, using METT

15:10-15:30 Richard Boon eThekwini Municipality Challenges in managing threatened ecosystems in an urban : the case of the eThekwini Municipal Area (, South Africa)

15h30-16h00 TEA

SESSION 2 - Fern Theatre SESSION 3 - Chapel SESSION 4 - Karkloof SESSION 5 - Sunset Lounge 16h00- 16h00- 16h00- 16h00- ALIEN SPECIES PROTECTED AREA AND TRANSFRONTIER MANAGEMENT GLOBAL CHANGE AGRICULTURAL AND AFFORESTATION IMPACTS 18h00 18h00 18h00 18h00 eThekwini Chair Ezemvelo Ian Rushworth Chair Ezemvelo Bheki Khoza Chair Richard Boon Chair UniZul Alpheus Zobolo Municipality Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title The effect of livestock grazing systems Considerations for invasive disease People and parks programme in South 16:00- 16:00- 16:00- 16:00- Lucas on rangeland condition of the emerging Ché Weldon NWU surveillance from an amphibian host Koena Cholo DEA Africa: “Conservation for the people with Neo Matlhola NZG / NRF You can’t go back and sample the past! ARC 16:20 16:20 16:20 16:20 Letsoalo farmers of Gauteng province, South perspective the people” Africa Effect of the surrounding and Management and control strategies of 16:20- 16:20- Vulnerability, parks and people: lessons 16:20- small mammals feel the 16:20- Inam Stellenbosch pine plantation on natural forest Cliff Dlamini WWF-SA invasive alien plant species in Ruth Kruger CER Peter Taylor UniVen 16:40 16:40 from land claims on protected areas 16:40 heat 16:40 Yekwayo University arthropod assamblages within Kwa-Zulu Swaziland: An overview Natal timber production areas Congruency of selected biological Effects of simulated elevated indicators to Wet-Health scores: 16:40- Colette 16:40- Lieneke de VU University The KAZA project: integration or 16:40- Rowan 16:40- Patrick Independent Famine weed – a way forward UKZN temperatures on KwaZulu-Natal Ezemvelo simplifying the assessment of 17:00 Terblanche 17:00 Visser Amsterdam alienation? 17:00 Buhrmann 17:00 Kubheka Sandstone Sourveld vegetation agricultural impacts on wetlands in the KZN Midlands The coastal of the eThekwini Municipality: a floristic Potential distribution and habitat Challenges faced in nominating the 17:00- Jorge 17:00- 17:00- eThekwini investigation with focus on climatic and 17:00- Possible effects of agricultural UKZN susceptibility of emerging invasive alien Roger Porter Ezemvelo Okavango Delta, Botswana to be listed Lyle Ground Amy Harvey NWU 17:20 Renteria 17:20 17:20 Municipality disturbance drivers of species richness 17:20 pesticides on tadpoles plant species in South Africa a World Heritage Site and species composition variation across patches

Nurseries and Removing invasive animals: recent Conserving Chrissiesmeer: developing Climate change adaptation in eThekwini A conservation strategy for the 17:20- Warren 17:20- Ursula 17:20- eThekwini 17:20- Steven Pet Trade case studies in South Africa and the EWT a management plan for Mpumalanga’s Bheka Nxele Municipality: implementation challenges SANBI plantation industry and the role of 17:40 Schmidt 17:40 Franke 17:40 Municipality 17:40 Germishuizen Partnership importance of communication largest Protected Environment on Ingonyama Trust Land certification

17:40- 17:40- 17:40- 17:40- DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION 18:00 18:00 18:00 18:00

18h00-19h30 ICEBREAKER Cocktail Function - Orange Tree Room and Surrounds

18h00-19h00 INTERN NETWORKING ENGAGEMENT The Deck outside the Snooty Fox Restaurant SYMPOSIUM OF CONTEMPORARY CONSERVATION PRACTICE 2014 FINAL PROGRAMME

TUESDAY, 4 November 2014 SESSION 6 - FERN THEATRE

08h30-10h30 PLENARY

South African Environmental Chair Sue van Rensburg Observation Network Time Speaker Organisation Title

Prof Tim South African Environmental 08:30-09:10 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: A review of bush-encroachment in southern Africa: changes and causes O'Connor Observation Network

09:10-09:30 Kevin Kirkman University of KwaZulu-Natal Cross-continental comparison of fire and grazing influence on vegetation diversity

09:30-09:50 Bruce Kelbe University of Zululand Land use and water resources management – afforestation impacts in the Maputaland Coastal Plain

09:50-10:10 Ian Engelbrecht University of Pretoria Environmental diversity as a surrogate for species diversity: an assessment

10:10-10:30 Treve Jenkin Rhodes University Cultivating the capability to care for nature: exploring stewardship in two rural villages of the Amatole

10h30-11h00 TEA

SESSION 7 - Fern Theatre SESSION 8 - Chapel SESSION 9 - Karkloof SESSION 10 - Sunset Lounge 11:00- 11:00- 11:00- 11:00- VEGETATION MANAGEMENT SPECIAL SESSION: STEWARDSHIP INVERTEBRATE DIVERSITY SPECIES CONSERVATION 13:00 13:00 13:00 13:00

Chair Ezemvelo Petris Ngwenya Chair SANBI Tammy Smith Chair Ezemvelo Adrian Armstrong Chair UKZN Mike Perrin

Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Assessment of long-term changes in Surrogates of spider diversity, 11:00- grassland composition in relation to fire 11:00- Jessica 11:00- leveraging the conservation of a poorly 11:00- Louis du Paul Gordijn SAEON UKZN / WWF-SA Stewardship: what does it mean? Stefan Foord UniVen NWU Are our frogs about to croak? 11:20 treatment in the Cathedral Peak 11:20 Cockburn 11:20 known group in the of 11:20 Preez research catchments South Africa Fire regime, fire frequency and the Barriers to the successful Ant diversity in an arid peri-urban Population level conservation strategy 11:20- survival of Protea roupelliae subsp. 11:20- Cobus 11:20- Vusani 11:20- Ed Granger SAEON EWT implementation of Biodiversity UniVen landscape of the Vhembe Biosphere, Mea Trenor NWU of the critically endangered Pickersgill's 11:40 roupelliae Meisn. in the Sani Valley, 11:40 Theron 11:40 Mauda 11:40 Stewardship initiatives in South Africa South Africa Reed Frog (Hyperolius pickersgilli) uKhahlamba- Comparing two fire management Lessons learnt from implementation of 11:40- Navashni strategies in the Greater Limpopo 11:40- Nikara 11:40- Mark Ant diversity across an altitudinal 11:40- Esther Operant conditioning of dogs for use in SANParks WWF-SA Catchment Stewardship Tools in the UP NWU 12:00 Govender Transfrontier Park: consequences for 12:00 Mahadeo 12:00 Robertson gradient in the Maloti-Drakensberg 12:00 Matthew amphibian conservation ecology Upper uMngeni fire regimes and biodiversity

DNA barcoding of urban environments: Floristics of KwaZulu-Natal Sandstone Development of a wild game 12:00- Charmaine 12:00- Greg 12:00- Sandi Willows- a look at the invertebrate diversity in the 12:00- Michelle UKZN Sourveld within the eThekwini Municipal Ezemvelo certification scheme in KwaZulu-Natal UKZN NWU Do parasites pose a threat to frogs? 12:20 Drury 12:20 Martindale 12:20 Munro eThekwini Municipal Area (South 12:20 Delport Area, an island biogeography study biodiversity stewardship sites Africa)

Mapping wood density variation and Threatened plant species and The use of electronic information 12:20- Sizwe canopy cover percentage in the 12:20- Isabel vegetation types in KwaZulu-Natal: the 12:20- Sanelisiwe The utility of DNA barcoding in Diptera 12:20- Zoëgné du UKZN BotSoc UKZN NWU services to evaluate the status of 12:40 Hlatshwayo KwaZulu-Natal Sandstone Sourveld 12:40 Johnson role of the Biodiversity Stewardship 12:40 Duze of eThekwini 12:40 Preez amphibian conservation in South Africa using Worldview-2 Programme in ensuring their survival

Reviving range monitoring using fixed- Environmental Changing tack: alternative management DNA barcoding of Hemiptera in an Behaviour, thermoregulation and skin 12:40- Short Ecological point photographs and field 12:40- 12:40- Ashrenee 12:40- Abigail Alan Short Nicky McLeod and Rural approaches for controlling the spread of UKZN urban environment (eThekwini, South NWU pathogen control in Chiromantis 13:00 Consulting measurements in Marakele Park, 13:00 13:00 Govender 13:00 Pretorius Solutions invasive wattle in communal landscape Africa) xerampelina Limpopo Province, South Africa

13h00-14h00 LUNCH

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TUESDAY, 4 November 2014 SESSION 11 - Fern Theatre SESSION 12 - Chapel SESSION 13 - Karkloof SESSION 14 - Sunset Lounge 14:00- 14:00- 14:00- SPECIAL SESSION: HYPERDIVERSITY - APPROACHES TO 14:00- ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES SPECIAL SESSION: STEWARDSHIP SPECIES CONSERVATION 15:30 15:30 15:30 CONSERVING INVERTEBRATES 15:30 University of Chair Ezemvelo Brent Coverdale Chair Ezemvelo Greg Martindale Chair Ian Engelbrecht Chair Ezemvelo Oscar Mthimkhulu Pretoria Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Simplification of the composition, Reflection: engaging Ingonyama land diversity and structure of woody Ansie Wattled Crane Recovery Program – 14:00- 14:00- Bheka eThekwini stakeholders for biodiversity 14:00- The South African National Survey of 14:00- KZN Crane Tim O’Connor SAEON vegetation in a semi-arid African Dippenaar- ARC Lara Jordan historical overview, current update and 14:20 14:20 Memela Municipality stewardship partnership in the 14:20 Arachnida (SANSA) – the way forward 14:20 Foundation savanna reserve following the re- Schoeman lessons that can be learnt eThekwini Municipal Area introduction of elephants Foraging range, airspace and habitat Elephant movement and impact on dry Documenting South Africa’s dung 14:20- 14:20- Lutendo Restoration planning for Buffelsdraai 14:20- Carmen 14:20- use of Cape Vultures (Gyps Paul Gordijn SAEON land woody vegetation in Ithala Game UKZN UP beetle diversity (Coleoptera: Frik Lemmer Ezemvelo 14:40 14:40 Mugwedi landfill site in the eThekwini Municipality 14:40 Jacobs 14:40 coprotheres) in the Northern Maloti- Reserve Scarabaeidae; Scarabaeinae) Drakensberg Landscape heterogeneity is crucial for 14:40- Jeanetta Transfrontier elephant populations: 14:40- Natasha eThekwini One piece at a time: the makings of a 14:40- Stellenbosch 14:40- Sven Stony point: African Penguin SANBI James Pryke specialist interior species in ecological UCT 15:00 Selier challenges to their management 15:00 Govender Municipality nature reserve 15:00 Univeristy 15:00 Ragaller management in a residential area networks Predator prey relationships, prey selection and effects on threatened Workshop Session Introduction: Key 15:00- Bulelani CapeNature / 15:00- Tracey 15:00- Mark Using atlas datasets for making more 15:00- Simon species to inform risk management, SANBI Information for Stewardship UP Wildlife ACT Wildlife ACT monitoring 15:20 Dyonase CPUT 15:20 Cumming 15:20 Robertson informed conservation decisions 15:20 Morgan after the reintroduction of lion to Implementation Mountain Zebra National Park

15:20- 15:20- 15:20- 15:20- DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION 15:30 15:30 15:30 15:30

15h30-16h00 TEA

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TUESDAY, 4 November 2014 SESSION 15 - Fern Theatre SESSION 16 - Chapel SESSION 17 - Karkloof SESSION 18 - Sunset Lounge 16:00- 16:00- WORKSHOP SESSION: KEY INFORMATION FOR STEWARDSHIP 16:00- SPECIAL SESSION: HYPERDIVERSITY - APPROACHES TO 16:00- ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES SPECIES CONSERVATION 17:30 17:30 IMPLEMENTATION 17:30 CONSERVING INVERTEBRATES 17:30 University of Chair Ezemvelo Scotty Kyle Facilitators SANBI & WCT Tracey Cumming & Kevin McCann Chair Ian Engelbrecht Chair Ezemvelo Clint Carbutt Pretoria Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title The importance of crabs and clawed Afrotropical Neuroptera and 16:00- Natasha frogs for the kangaroo leech 16:00- 16:00- Mervyn 16:00- NWU UP Megaloptera (Insecta) Biodiversity Taryn Gilroy Wildlife ACT Satellite tracking priority species 16:20 Kruger Marsupiobdella africana (Hirudinea: 16:20 16:20 Mansell 16:20 Database Glossiphoniidae) Predation success of native and Digitisation projects at the KwaZulu- 16:20- 16:20- 16:20- Burgert 16:20- Augmentation of the critically Jean Verster NWU invasive fish species as biological KZN Museum Natal Museum and their potential Sharon Louw Ezemvelo 16:40 16:40 16:40 Muller 16:40 endangered species, Aloe saundersiae control for mosquitoes importance to conservation Citizen scientists making significant 16:40- Xander Home ranges of Nile crocodiles in the 16:40- 16:40- Megan Loftie- The power of citizen science at the 16:40- Suvarna Ezemvelo UCT SANBI contributions to the conservation of 17:00 Combrink Lake St Lucia estuarine system 17:00 Key Information for Stewardship Implementation 17:00 Eaton 17:00 Parbhoo threatened plants All corridors are equal, but some are more equal than others - dung beetle African 17:00- Julia van Stellenbosch 17:00- 17:00- Connal The importance of accurate biodiversity 17:00- Conservation in an uncertain future: is and ant assemblage responses to ARC Paul Cryer Conservation 17:20 Schalkwyk University 17:20 17:20 Eardley information: an atlassing perspective 17:20 there social and institutional backing? grassland corridor size within a timber Trust production landscape

17:20- 17:20- 17:20- 17:20- DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION 17:30 17:30 17:30 17:30 SESSION 19 - SUNSET PUB

18h00-19h00 POSTER SESSION

Author Organisation Title

Sarah Findlay South African National Biodiversity Institute Using urban transects to assess the magnitude of wildlife trade: a case study for cycads

Simangele Sithole University of KwaZulu-Natal Potability of rainwater harvested from ground catchment systems

Zamo Hlela University of KwaZulu-Natal Towards redefining participatory learning spaces from an Afrocentric perspective

Isabel Johnson Botanical Society of South Africa Maputaland Coastal Grasslands: is there a relationship between rangeland condition and non-graminoid species richness?

Jabu Linden Vhembe Biosphere Reserve Conservation planning in the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, Limpopo Province

Menzi Nzumalo South African National Biodiversity Institute Detection and control of two invasive alien Sagittaria species in South Africa

Lucky Maako Tshwane University of Technology The role of ICTs in combatting wildlife crime in South Africa

Simangaliso Fakude African Conservation Trust Conservation agriculture — securing natural resources and indigenous knowledge beyond Protected Areas

South African Environmental Observation Nasiphi Ntshanga The fire history of the Cathedral Peak research catchments Network BRAAI - ORANGE TREE ROOM AND SURROUNDS

19h00-21h00 BRAAI

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WEDNESDAY, 5 November 2014 SESSION 20 - FERN THEATRE

08h30-10h30 PLENARY

Senior General Manager People and Chair Sifiso Keswa Conservation, Ezemvelo Time Speaker Organisation Title

Dr Mandy University of Cape Town & Nelson 08:30-09:10 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Most important questions for conservation planning 2014 Lombard Mandela Metropolitan University

09:10-09:30 Jean Harris Ezemvelo Phakisa Initiative: fast-tracking establishment of an effective and representative network of Marine Protected Areas for South Africa

09:30-09:50 Heather Terrapon SANBI Encompassing provincial monitoring within the National Monitoring Framework

09:50-10:10 Matt Pretorius EWT Wildlife and Energy Programme - partnership with Eskom

Bangor University / Royal Swedish 10:10-10:30 Neal Haddaway Knowledge brokering on the conservation front lines Academy of Sciences

10:30-11:00 TEA

SESSION 21 - Fern Theatre SESSION 22 - Chapel SESSION 23 - Karkloof SESSION 24 - Sunset Lounge 11:00- 11:00- 11:00- 11:00- SPECIAL SESSION: CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONSERVATION CONSERVATION PLANNING NATURAL RESOURCE USE OBSERVATION AND MONITORING - AMPHIBIA 13:00 13:00 13:00 13:00 HISTORY

Chair Ezemvelo Boyd Escott Chair Ezemvelo Graham Keet Chair EWT Jeanne Tarrant Chair Ezemvelo Steve McKean

Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Lending a helping hand (or ear) to Challenges of cultural heritage Durban’s Systematic Biodiversity Plan: Socioeconomic impact of marine 11:00- Cameron eThekwini 11:00- 11:00- Adrian KwaZulu-Natal’s threatened frogs: 11:00- Catherine conservation and mining on the refining environmental planning at a Siran Offman CEPAM invertebrates collection on Chuiba and Ezemvelo WITS 11:20 McLean Municipality 11:20 11:20 Armstrong provincial monitoring protocols and 11:20 Namono Makgabeng Plateau, Limpopo Province, local level Maringanha beaches citizen science to implement these South Africa

Assessing access, utilisation and From the island to the mainland; 11:20- Dominic Conservation plans: Do we have too 11:20- Minenhle 11:20- Joanita Pit tagging as a tool in monitoring 11:20- Pascall Robben Island Ezemvelo UKZN management of marine resources at NWU delineation of physical boundaries of 11:40 Wieners many? An implementation perspective 11:40 Ndlovu 11:40 Viviers amphibian populations 11:40 Taruvinga Museum / UCT uMthwalume, KwaZulu-Natal World Heritage properties in Africa Effect of airplane noise on the calls of Rock art tourism and conservation: What does SPLUMA mean for the Biodiversity conservation and utilisation the critically endangered Pickersgill’s Annie van de 11:40- 11:40- Sizwe 11:40- Donnavan 11:40- lessons from the Ukhahlamba- Felicity Elliot Ezemvelo securing of the KwaZulu-Natal UKZN in peri-urban communities: experiences NWU reed frog, implications for passive Venter- Amafa 12:00 12:00 Nkambule 12:00 Kruger 12:00 Drakensberg Mountains World Heritage biodiversity network? from Inanda and Buffelsdraai acoustic monitoring of an endangered Radford Site species A tale of two parks: comparing rock art Marine biodiversity and protected area Passive acoustic monitoring of Annie van de 12:00- 12:00- Subsistence vs. commercial: use and 12:00- Edward 12:00- management practices in Kakadu Sean Porter ORI targets - a global review with Scotty Kyle Ezemvelo NWU amphibians in the Ndumo Game Venter- Amafa 12:20 12:20 abuse of our living natural resources 12:20 Netherlands 12:20 National park, Australia and the Maloti- recommendations for South Africa Reserve Radford Drakensberg Park Description of the vegetation types of Monitoring the calling activity responses the eThekwini Municipal Area circa Comparison of medicinal trees densities African Terrestrial laser scanning as a tool to 12:20- eThekwini 12:20- 12:20- of Quecket’s River Frog (Amietia 12:20- Richard Boon 1850 as a baseline for the preparation Sifiso Keswa Ezemvelo in and on the Nibela Lize Brown NWU Michelle Dye Conservation improve management of cultural 12:40 Municipality 12:40 12:40 quecketti) to changes in atmospheric 12:40 of a fine-scale systematic biodiversity Peninsula Trust heritage in protected areas conditions plan Clearing the confusion: the roles of Incorporating ecosystem service 12:40- Rashieda eThekwini 12:40- local formal institutions in regulating 12:40- Leaping into action – the role of ex situ 12:40- hotspots into urban conservation Sarah Findlay WITS Judy Mann SAAMBR DISCUSSION 13:00 Davids Municipality 13:00 firewood harvesting in Bushbuckridge, 13:00 in in situ amphibian conservation 13:00 planning South Africa

13h00-14h00 LUNCH

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WEDNESDAY, 5 November 2014 SESSION 25 - Fern Theatre SESSION 26 - Chapel SESSION 27 - Karkloof 14:00- SPECIAL SESSION: LESSIONS IN CONSERVATION FROM 14:00- 14:00- VALUING BIODIVERSITY SPECIAL SESSION: EVIDENCE-BASED CONSERVATION 15:30 HLHLUWE-IMFOLOZI PARK 15:30 15:30

Chair Ezemvelo Dave Druce Chair Ezemvelo Joe Phadima Chair Bangor University Neal Haddaway

Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Why honeybee forage resources are Temporal changes in the large Natalie 14:00- 14:00- Tlou essential for crop pollination services in 14:00- Tried and tested: approaches to Liza le Roux NMMU herbivore fauna of Hluhluwe-iMfolozi SANBI Rebelo Da UJ 14:20 14:20 Masehela South Africa: Results from the 14:20 improve research uptake Park Silva Honeybee Forage Project Swedish Rhino and former human land use as Socio-economic aspects of the Harriet 14:20- Joris University of 14:20- KZN Sharks 14:20- Using conservation evidence to make important drivers of heterogeneity and Matt Dicken Sodwana Bay SCUBA diving industry, Davies- EWT 14:40 Cromsigt Agricultural 14:40 Board 14:40 mammal management more effective biodiversity in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park with a specific focus on sharks Mostert Sciences Lessons from evaluating the value Mind the gap! How conservation Using spatial and social ecology for 14:40- Adrian 14:40- Nonhle contribution of marine resources to 14:40- Imperial College practitioners and researchers exchange UKZN habitat and population management of Ezemvelo Celine Gossa 15:00 Shrader 15:00 Mngadi livelihoods options of some coastal 15:00 London scientific information in conservation white and black rhinos communities of KwaZulu-Natal science

15:00- University of Determinants of vegetation patterns in 15:00- Mathieu Mapping ecological infrastructure in the 15:00- Jeanne Evidence-based conservation for Cleo Gosling UKZN EWT 15:20 Groningen Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park 15:20 Rouget uMgeni catchment 15:20 Tarrant amphibians: relevance for South Africa

15:20- 15:20- 15:20- DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION 15:30 15:30 15:30

15h30-16h00 TEA

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WEDNESDAY, 5 November 2014 SESSION 28 - Fern Theatre SESSION 29 - Chapel SESSION 30 - Karkloof 16:00- SPECIAL SESSION: LESSIONS IN CONSERVATION FROM 16:00- 16:00- VALUING BIODIVERSITY SPECIAL SESSION: EVIDENCE-BASED CONSERVATION 17:30 HLHLUWE-IMFOLOZI PARK 17:30 17:30 University of Chair Ezemvelo Jabulani Ngubane Chair UKZN Mathieu Rouget Chair Jessica Walsh Cambridge Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Ecological Infrastructure – the value of 16:00- Elephant management in Hluhluwe- 16:00- healthy riparian zones for freshwater 16:00- Jessica University of Barriers and solutions towards using Dave Druce Ezemvelo Mark Graham GroundTruth 16:20 iMfolozi Park 16:20 ecosystem conservation – theory, 16:20 Walsh Cambridge evidence in conservation management practise and application

Evaluating the dependency of Incema 16:20- Mariska te Invasive species: the Chromolaena 16:20- (Juncus kraussi) harvesters on Incema 16:20- Umeå University Phindile Xulu Ezemvelo 16:40 Beest odorata story 16:40 and its contribution to their livelihoods in 16:40 iSimangaliso Wetland Park

The history of fire research at Hluhluwe- African The circular economy: a strategy for 16:40- Sally CSIR-NRE / 16:40- Sihle 16:40- iMfolozi Park and its impacts on fire Conservation rural communities around Protected 17:00 Archibald WITS 17:00 Madonsela 17:00 management in conservation areas Trust Areas Workshop session on implementing evidence-based conservation

Demography and space use of a fenced 17:00- David University of population of African wild dogs in HIP: 17:00- Coert Is conservation necessarily good - what 17:00- Forestwood 17:20 Marneweck Pretoria implications for metapopulation 17:20 Geldenhuys criteria do we use? 17:20 management

17:20- 17:20- 17:20- DISCUSSION DISCUSSION 17:30 17:30 17:30 DOCUMENTARY FILM PREMIERE - FERN THEATRE

Rhino in Crisis presented by David Cook 18h30-21h00 DOCUMENTARY FILM PREMIERE Popcorn & Pizza Evening

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THURSDAY, 6 November 2014 SESSION 31 - FERN THEATRE

08h30-10h30 PLENARY

Scientific Manager Land-Use Planning Chair Andy Blackmore and IEM, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife

Time Speaker Organisation Title

08:30-09:10 Mr Steve Galster Director, Freeland Foundation KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Xaysavang Trading corporation and the rhino horn trade: case not closed

09:10-09:30 Michelle Pfab SANBI Listing of species as threatened or protected. Targeting legislation where it matters most.

09:30-09:50 Mandy Lombard UCT / NMMU Contraventions of the National Norms and Standards for the Management of Elephants in South Africa

09:50-10:10 Jackie Raw NMMU Decline of the giant whelk, Terebralia palustris, in South African

10:10-10:30 Jessica Cockburn eThekwini Municipality Evaluating a transdisciplinary research partnership: what matters more – tangible or intangible outcomes?

10h30-11h00 TEA

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THURSDAY, 6 November 2014 SESSION 32 - Fern Theatre SESSION 33 - Chapel SESSION 34 - Karkloof 11:00- 11:00- 11:00- WILDLIFE LAW, POLICY AND ETHICS ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES - ESTUARIES ENABLING PARTNERSHIPS 13:00 13:00 13:00

Chair Ezemvelo Ntokozo Maphumulo Chair UKZN Andre Vosloo Chair WCT Kevin McCann

Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title

11:00- Wild animals and the South African 11:00- Ayanda The first comprehensive mapping of 11:00- Stephanie eThekwini Working for ecosystems: a partnership Ainsley Hay NSPCA Ezemvelo 11:20 Animal Welfare Laws 11:20 Mnikathi micro-estuaries within KwaZulu-Natal 11:20 Reynolds Municipality for change The systematics and ecology of fiddler 11:20- 11:20- 11:20- Brent Zululand Vulture Conservation Project – Ruth Kruger CER Conservation: a zero-sum game? Nasreen Peer NMMU crabs (Uca spp.) in KwaZulu-Natal with Ezemvelo 11:40 11:40 11:40 Coverdale putting partnerships into practice emphasis on feeding

The relationship between the NEMA Kenya Marine Anthropogenic effects of municipal 11:40- Andy and the Public Trust Doctrine: the 11:40- James and Fisheries 11:40- Enhancing the performance of Ezemvelo effluents on mangrove ecosystems Rob Fincham MIDI 12:00 Blackmore importance of the NEMA principles in 12:00 Emuria Research 12:00 conservancies along Tudor Creek of Mombasa, Kenya safeguarding South Africa's biodiversity Institute

Minimum requirements for biodiversity Towards closing the gap in effective 12:00- Santhuri considerations in land use planning and 12:00- Jabulile Driving estuarine monitoring in South 12:00- DEA DEA Lizanne Nel SAHGCA partnerships between private sector and 12:20 Naidoo Integrated Environmental Management 12:20 Nhleko Africa 12:20 community conservation (IEM) Towards the development of Lake St. Lucia: what we know now - KZN 12:20- Zintle Biodiversity Management Plan for 12:20- Monique 12:20- Rob DEA SAEON preliminary results towards informing Conservancies Enabling partnerships 12:40 Mapekula Norms and Standards for Coastal and 12:40 Nunes 12:40 Crankshaw long-term monitoring initiatives Association Marine Ecosystems in South Africa The value of public participation in 12:40- 12:40- 12:40- distribution surveys and threat DISCUSSION DISCUSSION Birthe Linden UniVen 13:00 13:00 13:00 assessments: a study on samango monkeys in Limpopo Province

13h00-14h00 LUNCH

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THURSDAY, 6 November 2014 SESSION 35 - Fern Theatre SESSION 36 - Chapel SESSION 37 - Karkloof 14:00- 14:00- 14:00- WILDLIFE TRADE OBSERVATION AND MONITORING - MARINE SPECIAL SESSION: KWAZULU-NATAL RIVERS - SOURCE TO SEA 15:40 15:40 15:40

Chair EWT Harriet Davies-Mostert Chair Ezemvelo Ken Morty Chair GroundTruth Mark Graham

Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title The investigation of asymmetries in fish What we’ve learnt from ten years of assemblages in sanctuaries, partially 14:00- Michael 14:00- Mondli 14:00- Gordon monitoring the wellbeing of the fish in Independent Smart trade in rhino horn Ezemvelo protected and open areas of KwaZulu- INR 14:20 Eustace 14:20 Dlamini 14:20 O’Brien Amatikulu, Thukela and Umvoti Natal MPAs using Remote Estuaries, South Africa Underground Video (BRUV) analysis Water temperature and egg The utilization, management and iSimangaliso reef resilience monitoring development in key South African 14:20- Marula distribution of selected CITES and 14:20- Jennifer 14:20- Vere Ross- UL Ezemvelo programme: dive concessionaires GroundTruth aquatic insects– implications for 14:40 Rasethe TOPS-listed plant species in the 14:40 Olbers 14:40 Gillespie assist in marine conservation establishment of thermal guidelines for Limpopo Province, South Africa Ecological Reserve Monitoring the trade in wildlife: a survey Remote video-image techniques for Influence of stream modification and 14:40- Tasneem of Threatened and Protected Species 14:40- EnviroVision 14:40- Patrick SANBI Gavin Hough shark-spotting. Applications for Ezemvelo agricultural intensification on the 15:00 Variawa traded in the Faraday Muthi Market, 15:00 Solutions 15:00 Kubheka conservation abundance of otters in the Drakensberg South Africa Changes in abundances of shallow- 15:00- Zwelakhe Quantifying the internet pet-trade in 15:00- Sean water elasmobranchs off the east coast 15:00- Biomonitoring informing sound river SANBI ORI Chris Dickens INR 15:20 Zondi indigenous reptiles 15:20 Fennessy of South Africa – attributable to trawling 15:20 management in KwaZulu-Natal or not?

15:20- 15:20- 15:20- DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION 15:30 15:30 15:30

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THURSDAY, 6 November 2014 SESSION 38 - Fern Theatre SESSION 39 - Chapel SESSION 40 - Karkloof 16:00- 16:00- 16:00- HOT TOPIC WORKSHOP: ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE OBSERVATION AND MONITORING - MARINE SPECIAL SESSION: KWAZULU-NATAL RIVERS - SOURCE TO SEA 17:30 17:30 17:30

Chair EWT Harriet Davies-Mostert Chair ORI Larry Oellermann Chair INR Chris Dickens

Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Time Speaker Organisation Title Fish behaviour to evaluate the Abundance patterns of macrofauna biological consequences of altering 16:00- 16:00- Daudi University of Dar associated to marine macroalgae on the 16:00- Francois UKZN habitat, flow and water quality variable 16:20 16:20 Msangameno es Salaam intertidal rocky shores of Zanzibar 16:20 Jacobs states in KwaZulu-Natal rivers: lessons island from the rest of South Africa

Rocky shore monitoring programme in Regional Scale Risk Assessment using 16:20- 16:20- MPAs for detecting impacts of climate 16:20- Gordon the relative risk model of threats to the Maya Pfaff DEA INR 16:40 16:40 change, alien invasive species and 16:40 O’Brien surface aquatic ecosystems of the pollution Umvoti River catchment, South Africa Reducing the demand for illegal wildlife products within South Africa Assessment of riverine ecosystem 16:40- 16:40- Lisa Utilisation of webcams to analyse and 16:40- Sanele UCT DEA health of Umtata River: stable nitrogen 17:00 17:00 Guastella manage beaches and estuaries 17:00 Mzamo isotope dynamics approach South Africa’s need for research-based 17:00- 17:00- Qhawekazi 17:00- DEA indicators and standards for marine and 17:20 17:20 Bovungana 17:20 coastal water quality DISCUSSION 17:20- 17:20- 17:20- DISCUSSION 17:30 17:30 17:30 GALA DINNER - FERN THEATRE

Master of Ceremonies Dr Andrew Venter, CEO, Wildlands Conservation Trust

Guest Speaker Lee Swan, Cygnet Consulting 18h30-22h00 GALA DINNER Presentation of Premiers' KZN Student Prof Fikile Mazibuko, Vice-Chancellor, University of KwaZulu-Natal Award

Music Hairy Legged Lentil Eaters

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FRIDAY, 7 November 2014 SESSION 41 - FERN THEATRE

08h00-10h30 PLENARY HOT TOPIC: RHINO CONSERVATION

Manager Ecological Advice East, Chair Craig Mulqueeny Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife Time Speaker Organisation Title

08:00-08:20 Richard Emslie IUCN - ARSG Continental rhino poaching trends, CITES update and trends in live white rhino sales

08:20-08:40 Cedric Coetzee Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Rhino Protection Programme

08:40-09:00 Sam Ferreira SANParks Calming the perfect rhino poaching storm

09:00-09:20 Pelham Jones Private Rhino Owners Association Rhino in crisis, the road to CITES 2016

09:20-09:40 Keith Lockwood Independent Economist It's about more than just the market: the characteristics required of a legal trade regime in order to reduce rhino poaching

09:40-10:00 Enrico Di Minin University of Helsinki / UKZN A legal trade in rhino horn for improved rhino protection and sustainable development

10:00-10:30 DISCUSSION

10:30-11:00 TEA

SESSION 42 - FERN THEATRE

11h00-13h00 PLENARY HOT TOPIC: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON FRACKING THREAT

Chair Board Member, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife Peter Rutsch

Time Speaker Organisation Title

Prof Loratta 11:00-12:00 University of Cape Town KEYNOTE ADDRESS: A sense of place - new frontiers for environmental law? Feris

12h00-13h00 PLENARY CLOSING SESSION AND AWARDS CEREMONY

Chair Board Member, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife Peter Rutsch

Time Speaker Organisation Title

12:00-12:30 Roger Porter Independent Key issues, opportunities and solutions in contemporary conservation practice – trends and progress

Prof Fikile 12:30-12:50 Vice-Chancellor, University of Zululand Awards for Best Oral and Poster Papers presented at the Symposium Mazilbuko

12:50-13:00 Dr Ian Little Endangered Wildlife Trust Closing remarks and thanks

13h00-14h00 LUNCH

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