2015 SYMPOSIUM OF CONTEMPORARY CONSERVATION PRACTICE 2 - 6 November 2015 Fern Hill Conference Centre, Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, MONDAY, 2 November 2015 10h00-13h00 REGISTRATION 13h00-14h00 LUNCH SESSION 1 - FERN THEATRE 14h00-15h30 PLENARY OPENING SESSION

Chair Chairman of the Board, Wildlands Rob Fincham

Time Speaker Organisation Title Dr David Chief Executive Officer, 14:00-14:30 Welcome and Opening of the Symposium Mabunda Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife Dr Jean Head Scientific Services, 14:30-14:45 Goals of the Symposium of Contemporary Conservation Practice Harris Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife Nancy 14:45-15:30 COMPASS KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Power tools for communicating conservation Baron 15h30-16h00 TEA SESSION 2 - FERN THEATRE 16h00-17h20 PLENARY KEY GLOBAL AND NATIONAL INITIATIVES Head of Conservation, Ezemvelo Chair Bheki Khoza KZN Wildlife Time Speaker Organisation Title Craig Mulqueeny Ezemvelo Key messages and outcomes from the World Parks Congress and International Conference on Conservation Biology 16:00-16:20 & Ian Rushworth Sue J van SAEON Global trends in mountain research: are we our own worst enemy or are there no mountains in southern Africa? 16:20-16:40 Rensburg Tamsyn 16:40-17:00 Livingstone Ezemvelo Unlocking the South African Ocean Economy: Phakisa - an update on protection and governance Pamela 17:00-17:20 DEA Developing a National Offsets Policy for South Africa Kershaw MONDAY EVENING FUNCTION - CHAPEL 17:30-18:30 POSTER SESSION Gustav Engelbrecht NWDREAD Vredefort Dome World Heritage Site conservation practices: North West province side Theresa Sethusa SANBI Accounting for biodiversity and ecosystem services loss in response to invasions by alien and invasive species: a pompom weed case study Sam Manqele UKZN The assessment of the impacts, drivers and extent of anthropogenic threats on serval (Serval leptailurus) and oribi (Ourebia ouribi), in South Africa through community perceptions Theo Mostert UniZul Habitat conservation for the rare Warted Forest Orchid Didimoplexis verrucosa Sharon Louw Ezemvelo In search of Actinanthella wyliei, a rare Ngoye endemic Nokuphila Buthelezi eThekwini A spatial and temporal assessment of fire regimes on different vegetation types using MODIS burnt area products Wendy Collinson EWT Wildlife road traffic accidents: a standardized protocol for counting flattened fauna Sissie Matela ERS Restoration of on degraded communal landscapes: is it really possible? Sarah Findlay Independent Co-management in South Africa’s protected areas: genuine upliftment or empty promises? Bruce Goodwin Shell Reef Projects NPO Community mussel reef and restoration project 18h30-20h30 ICEBREAKER Cocktail Function - Orange Tree Room and Surrounds SYMPOSIUM OF CONTEMPORARY CONSERVATION PRACTICE 2015DRAFT PROGRAMME AS AT 20151026

TUESDAY, 3 November 2015 SESSION 3 - FERN THEATRE 08h30-10h30 PLENARY Chair University of KwaZulu-Natal Ursula Scharler Time Speaker Organisation Title Bruce KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Estimating the minimum size for inshore no-take marine protected areas in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park based on movement patterns of surf-zone fish 08:30-09:10 SAAMBR / ORI Mann species Jeanetta 09:10-09:30 SANBI Wild and free: what are we conserving and how do we measure it? Selier Nicky 09:30-09:50 Marine & Estuarine Research The restoration of the Lake St Lucia Forbes Judy 09:50-10:10 Mann- SAAMBR Conservation challenges – people solutions Lang Shana 10:10-10:30 UKZN Using social media as an effective tool for conveying conservation messages and tracking the social impact of conservation issues Mian 10h30-11h00 TEA SESSION 4 - Fern Theatre SESSION 5 - Chapel SESSION 6 - Karkloof SESSION 7 - Sunset 11:00- 11:00- 11:00- 11:00- Wildlife Management Tools Marine Conservation Alien Species SPECIAL SESSION: Biodiversity Stewardship 13:00 13:00 13:00 13:00 Chair Ezemvelo Craig Mulqueeny Chair Ezemvelo Scotty Kyle Chair Ezemvelo Boyd Escott Chair Wildlands Kevin McCann

Time Speaker Org. Title Time Speaker Org. Title Time Speaker Org. Title Time Speaker Org. Title Long term spatial and temporal trends in the catch, biology and Native species from nearby seed Measuring forb diversity and Michael KZN 11:00- Genomics in biodiversity 11:00- Matt diet of tiger sharks (Galeocerdo 11:00- Allister source areas regenerate within 11:00- Isabel rangeland condition in biodiversity Cunningh UP Sharks UKZN BotSoc conservation and management Dicken cuvier) caught in the KwaZulu- Starke invasive alien tree stands, New Johnson stewardship sites: an ongoing 11:20 am 11:20 Board 11:20 11:20 Natal Sharks Board bather Forest, KwaZulu-Natal process protection program A new assessment of the costs Case study of a community- Vincent Responsible genetic required to bring invasive alien Greg 11:20- 11:20- Vasha 52 years of 11:20- Jennifer 11:20- Consevation private sector wildlife ranching van der EWT management of metapopulations: Ezemvelo SU plants under control in the Martindal Chetty conservation in KwaZulu-Natal Fill Outcomes partnership: Nambiti Private 11:40 Merwe should inbreeding be tolerated? 11:40 11:40 protected area network of the 11:40 e The Invasives Website as How can genetics help you? A Microplastics in marine 11:40- Susan 11:40- Refilwe 11:40- Thabiso a tool to coordinate invasive alien 11:40- Bradley Stewardship for Sungazer UP case study of lion management in UKZN organisms in KwaZulu-Natal: a SANBI EWT Miller Mofokeng Cele plant control within eThekwini Gibbons conservation 12:00 Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park 12:00 new conservation threat? 12:00 12:00 Municipality Testing the utility of DNA The effects of climate change on Preliminary finds on biodiversity Effect of modification to river 12:00- Ashrenee barcoding in South African 12:00- Lisa Coastwatc 12:00- Carryn UKZN / the invasive alien plant 12:00- Wesley stewardship incentives at a UKZN sediment flow on KwaZulu-Natal WWF SA Govender Hemiptera: using eThekwini Guastella h KZN Smith SANBI Hypericum pseudohenryi in South Bell national, provincial, local and site 12:20 12:20 beaches 12:20 12:20 species as a case study Africa level The contribution to conservation Effects of grass competition Establishing a monitoring targets of vegetation types EnviroVisi Coastal surveillance systems and (Panicum maximum and 12:20- Gareth framework to facilitate the 12:20- Gavin 12:20- Musa 12:20- Cebile through the KwaZulu-Natal Panthera on contemporary conservation UKZN Eragrostis curvula), and nutrient Ezemvelo Mann adaptive management of Hough Mthembu Nzuza Biodiversity Stewardship 12:40 12:40 Solutions practice 12:40 availability on Parthenium 12:40 leopards in KwaZulu-Natal Programme, championed by hysterophorus establishment Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife Investigating transboundary Structure, biomass distribution Uncovering alien plant invasion conservation as a mechanism to Managing a wild elephant 12:40- Catharine 12:40- Ezidio Lurio and social impacts of seagrass 12:40- Wisdom patterns and processes using 12:40- Charity ensure sustained water Ezemvelo population using SNTC WWF SA Hanekom Cuamba University Thalassia hemprichii at Mecufi Dlamini Bayesian network-based spatial Cele provisioning through biodiversity 13:00 immunocontraception as a tool 13:00 13:00 13:00 Bay, northern Mozambique data mining stewardship, case study of Pongola River 13h00-14h00 LUNCH

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TUESDAY, 3 November 2015 SESSION 8 - Fern Theatre SESSION 9 - Chapel SESSION 10 - Karkloof SESSION 11 - Sunset 14:00- 14:00- 14:00- SPECIAL SESSION & WORKSHOP: Protected Area 14:00- Wildlife Industry and Biodiversity Conservation Marine Resource Use Media and Communication 15:30 15:30 15:30 Management Effectiveness Assessments - Linking 15:30 CapeNatu Facilitat Chair Ezemvelo Brent Coverdale Chair Ezemvelo George Nair re & Coral Birss & Ian Rushworth Chair Ezemvelo Mary Pieters ors Ezemvelo

Time Speaker Org. Title Time Speaker Org. Title Time Speaker Org. Title Time Speaker Org. Title Combining grass roots Status, purpose and significance Using management effectiveness Thirty odd, sometime very odd, conservation activities with 14:00- Jeanetta of the captive cheetah (Acinonyx 14:00- Scotty 14:00- Caiphus assessment results to inform 14:00- SANBI Ezemvelo years of fish tagging and recovery DEA Ndu Cele Wildlands Google Earth Outreach to Selier jubatus) industry in South Africa: Kyle Khumalo future management of Protected 14:20 14:20 at 14:20 14:20 transform self-identities and conservation or exploitation? Areas in South Africa empower township youth Can nature-based experiences Management effectiveness Bird of The Bearded Vulture recovery Assessing access, utilisation and affect an individual’s connection 14:20- Shannon 14:20- Minenhle 14:20- Natalie evaluation in CapeNature: a 14:20- Shana Prey program - threatened species UKZN management of marine resources CapeNature UKZN to nature without teaching Hoffman Ndlovu Hayward framework for Protected Area Mian 14:40 Sanctuary conservation 14:40 at uMthwalume, KwaZulu-Natal 14:40 14:40 conservation and what is the Management “stickiness” of such experiences?

The dynamics of stakeholder How reliable is the score obtained interaction in the governance of Resource use trends for the through Protected Areas Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife Kids 14:40- Tariro 14:40- Tembisa 14:40- Caiphus 14:40- UFS the private wildlife ranching sector Ezemvelo mussel fishery in KwaZulu-Natal DEA manager’s self-assessments Di Martin Ezemvelo Club: growing up with an Kamuti Jordaan Khumalo 15:00 in KwaZulu-Natal province, South 15:00 – are we getting it right? 15:00 using METT? A case study in 15:00 environmental ethic Africa South Africa’s Protected Areas Implications of new landuse An analysis of co-management Judy Do campaigns really help 15:00- Lizanne practises in the wildlife industry 15:00- Joe implementation: the case of line 15:00- WORKSHOP: How well are the findings of PAME 15:00- SAHGCA Ezemvelo Mann- SAAMBR conservation? The Penguin Nel on biodiversity planning and Phadima and mussel fishing in KwaZulu- assessments translating into strategic decision making 15:20 15:20 15:20 15:20 Lang Promises case study conservation targets Natal, South Africa and/or action on the ground within conservation 15:20- 15:20- 15:20- 15:20- DISCUSSION DISCUSSION agencies? DISCUSSION 15:30 15:30 15:30 15:30 15h30 - 16h00 TEA

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TUESDAY, 3 November 2015 SESSION 12 - Fern Theatre SESSION 13 - Chapel SESSION 14 - Karkloof SESSION 15 - Sunset SPECIAL SESSION & WORKSHOP: Protected Area 16:00- SPECIAL SESSION: Critical Ecosystem Partnership 16:00- SPECIAL SESSION: Building Marine Science and 16:00- 16:00- WORKSHOP: Conservation Funding - Applying for Management Effectiveness Assessments - Linking 17:30 Fund Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Hotspot 17:30 Conservation Management Capacity 17:30 17:30 Funding Assessment Outcomes to Management Actions Facilitat CapeNature Chair Wildlands Roelie Kloppers Chair Ezemvelo Jean Harris Coral Birss & Ian Rushworth Chair WWF SA Augustine Morkel ors & Ezemvelo Time Speaker Org. Title Title Speaker Org. Title Time Speaker Org. Title Time Speaker Org. Title

16:00- 16:00- Mark The Blue Fund Ocean Stewards 16:00- 16:00- Wildlands 16:20 16:20 Gerrard Initiative 16:20 16:20

Project presentations from Honours level Ocean This workshop is the first of an annual campaign to 16:20- 16:20- 16:20- WORKSHOP: How well are the findings of PAME 16:20- Stewards: build the capacity of applicants to Trusts to write better 16:40 16:40 16:40 assessments translating into strategic decision making 16:40 • The effect of SCUBA divers on coral reefs in proposals providing the Trust with great project gems to and/or action on the ground within conservation Feedback and discussion on the outcomes and Sodwana Bay, South Africa, Summer-Louise Newton pick from to ensure that funding is directed to well agencies? A number of informal assessments indicate deliverables for the past 5 years of Critical Ecosystem • Movement and dispersal patterns of dusky kob, thought through and planned projects to be invested in. that there may be significant room for improvement. Partnership Fund (CEPF) investment into the Argyrosomus japonicas in Algoa bay, assessed using In so doing, the project portfolios of the Trusts then The purpose of this workshop is to get a better idea of 16:40- Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Hotspot 16:40- conventional tagging techniques, Nokuthula Daweti 16:40- 16:40- become robust as a portfolio of projects that are having how well the PAME assessment findings are being 17:00 17:00 • The effect of thermal stress on the metabolic 17:00 17:00 impact at scale…rather than just impact. responses of adult South African abalone (Haliotis translated into management decisions, resource allocation and actions within conservation agencies, midae): a perspective on South African aquaculture The group can only work with a maximum of 40 and to provide generic recommendations for improving systems, Asanda Mthethwa persons (4 groups of 10), and will be done on a first the uptake of the findings into the adaptive • Dynamics of meiofauna during an extreme inverse come basis. Each participant should attend with a 17:00- 17:00- 17:00- management cycle. 17:00- salinity phase in Lake St Lucia, iSimangaliso Wetland project in mind they would like to have funded. 17:20 17:20 Park, Thembeka Radebe 17:20 17:20

17:20- 17:20- 17:20- 17:20- DISCUSSION & FEEDBACK 17:30 17:30 17:30 17:30 TUESDAY EVENING FUNCTION Fern Theatre Blood Lions Documentary: Bred for the Bullet 18h00-21h00 FILM EVENING Fern Theatre Panel Discussion Orange Tree Room Finger Supper and Cash Bar

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WEDNESDAY, 4 November 2015 SESSION 16 - FERN THEATRE 08h00-10h30 PLENARY SPECIAL SESSION: CAPTIVE BREEDING & HUNTING - WHEN IS BREEDING AND HUNTING OF VALUE TO CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY Chair TBA TBA Time Speaker Organisation Title Jeanetta South African National 08:00-08:20 Conservation breeding - what does it mean? Selier Biodiversity Institute Paul South African Predator 08:20-08:40 The large predator breeding industry Lubout Association

08:40-09:00 TBA TBA TBA

09:00-09:20 TBA TBA TBA Lizanne SA Hunters and Game 09:20-09:40 The wildlife industry at a crossroads – our decisions will shape the future Nel Association

10:00-10:30 PANEL DISCUSSION

10:30-11:00 TEA SESSION 17 - CHAPEL 11:00- PLENARY INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP: ONE MINUTE TO IMPRESS - HOW TO EXPLAIN YOUR CONSERVATION WORK TO ANYONE 13:00 Nancy Have you ever had someone ask you about your work only to watch his or her eyes glaze over? Do you want to communicate your science or conservation work in a way that will make Chair COMPASS Baron people lean in and listen? Honing your message and illustrating a few key interesting points about your work will help you to resonate with everyone, and leave them wanting more. Following 11:00- Judy on her plenary talk, Nancy Baron, lead communications trainer with COMPASS and author of Escape from the Ivory Tower: A Guide to Making Your Science Matter, will lead a two hour 13:00 Facilitato Mann- SAAMBR interactive workshop where you will master the art of the “elevator speech.” Nancy will teach you how to use a powerful tool called the Message Box to distill what really matters, and will r Lang share useful techniques to help you better engage and connect to your audience--even if you only have one minute. 13h00-14h00 LUNCH FIELDTRIPS & NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES 14h00-17h30 FIELDTRIPS NETWORKING SESSIONS WEDNESDAY EVENING FUNCTION - FERN THEATRE Master of Ceremonies Dr Andrew Venter, Wildlands Conservation Trust Guest Speaker Ken Weiss - THE POWER OF ONE 18h30-22h00 SYMPOSIUM DINNER Music The Three Amigos Presentation of Premiers' KZN Student Award

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THURSDAY, 5 November 2015 SESSION 18 - FERN THEATRE 08h30-10h30 PLENARY Chair Ezemvelo Sifiso Keswa Time Speaker Organisation Title John 08:30-09:10 Donaldso SANBI KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Providing scientific oversight for threatened species and wildlife trade - the role of the Scientific Authority n Harriet 09:10-09:30 Davies- EWT Illegal and unwise wildlife trade - hot topic update Mostert David 09:30-09:50 Marnewec EWT Metapopulation management as a tool for threatened species recovery: a case study of African wild dogs and cheetahs in South Africa k IUCN Climate Change Wendy 09:50-10:30 Specialist Group / Stellenbosch KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Climate change changes everything? Building resilience in a time of change Foden University 10h30-11h00 TEA SESSION 19 - Fern Theatre SESSION 20 - Chapel SESSION 21 - Karkloof SESSION 22 - Sunset SPECIAL SESSION: Community Conservation as a 11:00- 11:00- 11:00- 11:00- Law and Conservation Threatened Species Biodiversity Spatial Patterns and Temporal Trends tool for improving livelihood support and local 13:00 13:00 13:00 13:00 governance and achieving conservation objectives Chair Ezemvelo Andy Blackmore Chair SANBI Michelle Pfab Chair Ezemvelo Adrian Armstrong Chair Wildlands Mark Gerrard Time Speaker Org. Title Time Speaker Org. Title Time Speaker Org. Title Time Speaker Org. Title Environmental debt in insolvency EOH Climate-induced change of Ant diversity in an arid peri-urban Strategic partnerships and 11:00- Bronwyn and corporate transactions, with a 11:00- Debbie 11:00- Vusani 11:00- Dave Legal Ezemvelo environmentally defined floristic UniVen landscape of the Vhembe Wildlands innovative methods to fund Parker focus on industrial sites in South Jewitt Mauda Gilroy 11:20 Services 11:20 domains 11:20 Biosphere, South Africa 11:20 community game reserves (TBC) Africa CBNRM principles on a real-life EnAct SANBI’s Threatened Species case: evaluating the impact of Internation Exploring the role of Programme assessing the risk of An inventory of epigeal ants of 11:20- Melissa al / 11:20- Theresa 11:20- Caswell 11:20- Julia Humboldt interventions implemented on the municipalities in biodiversity SANBI extinction of indigenous animals: UniVen the western Soutpansberg Groenink Cullinan & Sethusa Munyai Bayer University community-owned Somkhanda 11:40 protection and management 11:40 our milestones, challenges and 11:40 Mountain range, South Africa 11:40 Associates Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, future plans Inc South Africa Towards the establishment of a 26000 hectare Community KwaZulu-Natal cycads: analyses Of property rights, the Floristics of KwaZulu-Natal Desale Conservation Area, an important 11:40- Andrew 11:40- Charmaine 11:40- of historical change using repeat 11:40- Joyce UKZN environment and the public trust: UKZN Sandstone Sourveld within the Okubami UCT MDTP bufferzone for the Maloti- Muir Drury photography and current Loza 12:00 who owns what, when? 12:00 eThekwini Municipal Area 12:00 chael 12:00 Park World Heritage population structure Site on the Free State Side: lessons learned Spatial distribution and movement Michael Mabula UKZN & Some thoughts on concurrent of Ceratotherium simum (white Monitoring Southern Ground- Co-management in South Africa’s 12:00- Kidd & 12:00- Catherine 12:00- Lucy Ground- 12:00- Sarah PKX legislative competence in relation Ezemvelo rhinoceros) in relation to Hornbill populations at a Independent protected areas: genuine Ina Hanekom Kemp Hornbill Findlay 12:20 Attorneys to nature conservation 12:20 vegetation type, rainfall and 12:20 provincial scale 12:20 upliftment or empty promises? Cronje Project poaching activity National Biodiversity Assessment A comparison of African Wild Dog Lessons learned in the Shepstone Regulation of alien and invasive 2018 Terrestrial Component: 12:20- Janice 12:20- Taryn Wildlife (Lycaon pictus) pack performance 12:20- Anisha 12:20- Bill Umgano implementation of the biodiversity & Wylie Species: NEMBA and the SANBI Vegetation Map of South Africa, Tooley Gilroy ACT across KwaZulu-Natal protected Dayaram Bainbridge Advisory conservation initiative of the 12:40 Attorneys Conservancy case 12:40 12:40 Lesotho and Swaziland, the past 12:40 areas Umgano project. (2006-2012) and the future (2015)

A South African wildlife DNA David The effect of wild dogs and 12:40- Monica 12:40- 12:40- 12:40- NZG SA barcoding reference database for Marnewe EWT rainfall on herbivores in Hluhluwe- DISCUSSION DISCUSSION Mwale 13:00 forensic investigations 13:00 ck iMfolozi Park, South Africa 13:00 13:00

13h00-14h00 LUNCH

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THURSDAY, 5 November 2015 SESSION 23 - Fern Theatre SESSION 24 - Chapel SESSION 25 - Karkloof SESSION 26 - Sunset SPECIAL SESSION: Road Ecology in South Africa: 14:00- 14:00- 14:00- 14:00- Land Use Change and Ecosystem Impacts Threatened Species People and Conservation State of the Science and Future Directions to 15:30 15:30 15:30 15:30 Achieve a Sustainable Transportation System Ezemvelo Chair Dudu Ngidi Chair Ezemvelo Brigitte Church Chair Ezemvelo Dennis Mkhabela Chair EWT Harriet Davies-Mostert Board Time Speaker Org. Title Time Speaker Org. Title Time Speaker Org. Title Time Speaker Org. Title Assessing the impacts of Road ecology in South Africa: Yvette changing land use on forest BotSoc / Optimising social, economic and 14:00- 14:00- Hlengiwe How Red List assessments affect 14:00- Kirsten 14:00- Wendy state of the science and future Ehlers UKZN mammals in the fragmented SANBI - Wildlands ecological gains through an EWT Mtshali conservation status of species Oliver Collinson directions to achieve a 14:20 Smith coastal forests of southern 14:20 CREW 14:20 integrated approach 14:20 sustainable transportation system KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa The effects of land-use change Developing a multi-species on the composition and Biodiversity Management Plan: a Partnerships and beneficiation: David conservation of avifaunal Rodney 14:20- 14:20- Michele five year plan to ensure the long- 14:20- Nandi realising the opportunities and 14:20- International lessons for road Ehlers UKZN communities in the Indian Ocean SANBI Ezemvelo van der ARCUE Pfab term survival of South Africa’s Thobela defining the possibilities through ecology in Africa and beyond 14:40 Smith Coastal Forests of Southern 14:40 14:40 14:40 Ree Critically Endangered and informed approaches KwaZulu-Natal: preliminary Endangered cycads results from non-breeding season Are humans the next honey bee Response of rodents to land-use Encephalartos ngoyanus “disease”? Exploring trends and 14:40- Nkhume gradients in northern Limpopo: 14:40- Sharon 14:40- Tlou 14:40- Wendy UniVen Ezemvelo monitoring trends – Ongoye SANBI implications of hive theft and EWT South Africa: the road ahead Nembudani implications for ecologically Louw Masehela Collinson 15:00 15:00 Forest Nature Reserve 15:00 vandalism in the South Africa 15:00 based rodent management beekeeping industry Biodiversity and cultural heritage Imperial Key characteristics to distinguish 15:00- Sam Evaluating the representation of 15:00- Zwelakhe 15:00- Vathiswa SANBI - approaches: lessons learnt from 15:00- College SANBI wild cycads from artificially Lloyd biodiversity in the EIA process Zondi Zikishe CREW two villages within the Buffalo City 15:20 London 15:20 propagated cycads 15:20 15:20 DISCUSSION Municipality 15:20- 15:20- 15:20- 15:20- DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION 15:30 15:30 15:30 15:30 15h30-16h00 TEA

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THURSDAY, 5 November 2015 SESSION 27 - Fern Theatre SESSION 28 - Chapel SESSION 29 - Karkloof 16:00- 16:00- 16:00- Conservation Economics Threatened Species People and Conservation 17:30 17:30 17:30 Chair Ezemvelo Joe Phadima Chair Ezemvelo Skhumbuzo Kubheka Chair Ezemvelo Petros Ngwenya Time Speaker Org. Title Time Speaker Org. Title Time Speaker Org. Title Investigating the phylogeographic The business case for creating Citizen scientists making 16:00- Pravin 16:00- Connor structure of the KwaZulu-Natal 16:00- Suvarna SANBI - Ezemvelo and managing protected areas UP significant contributions to the Pillay Stobie yellowfish with implications for Parbhoo CREW 16:20 through biodiversity stewardship 16:20 16:20 conservation of threatened plants conservation management Community involvement in valuing and protecting The impact of climate change on Pangolins in peril: a molecular 16:20- Steven ecosystems and associated 16:20- Antoinette NZG SA / 16:20- Simone small-scale farmers. A EWT approach to safeguard UKZN Segang biodiversity: the Chrissiesmeer Kotze UFS Pillay comparative study of three rural 16:40 16:40 populations 16:40 Protected Environment as a case communities in KwaZulu-Natal SESSION 29 - Sunset study An investigation into the decline 16:40- Steve An estimate of grassland value in 16:40- Sonja 16:40- Sissie Restoring livelihoods to restore Ezemvelo Ezemvelo of the Bearded Vulture Gypaetus ERS McKean KwaZulu-Natal Krueger Matela landscapes 17:00 17:00 barbatus in southern Africa 17:00 Advances in monitoring the muthi Addressing biodiversity 17:00- Nqobizitha Resource Conservation as an economic 17:00- Tasneem trade: searching for the 17:00- Wendy SANBI EWT conservation on roads in South Ndlovu Africa SA driver Variawa medicinally traded Threatened or Collinson 17:20 17:20 17:20 Africa Protected Species 17:20- 17:20- 17:20- DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION 17:30 17:30 17:30 THURSDAY EVENING FUNCTION

Nancy Baron / Kenneth Weiss TRUE STORIES TOLD LIVE STORY TELLING EVENING: Interactive 18h00-21h00 communication workshop Refreshments Braai and Cash Bar

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FRIDAY, 6 November 2015 SESSION 30 - Fern Theatre 08h30-10h00 PLENARY RHINO CONSERVATION UPDATE SESSION Chair Ezemvelo Jabulani Ngubane Time Speaker Organisation Title Richard IUCN SSC - African Rhino Emslie & 08:30-09:00 Specialist Group / SADC Rhino KEYNOTE ADDRESS: An update on rhino conservation Keryn Management Group Adcock Cedric 09:00-09:20 Ezemvelo Rhino poaching in KwaZulu-Natal Coetzee

Wendy SANParks - Cape Research 09:20-09:40 Rhino hide: the impact of the Rhino Ambassador programme on rhino poaching Annecke Centre

Lizanne 09:40-10:00 SAHGCA A multidisciplinary partnership approach to reducing rhino poaching incidents while improving people’s well-being Nel

10:00-10:30 PANEL DISCUSSION

10:30-11:00 TEA SESSION 31 - FERN THEATRE 11h00-13h00 PLENARY INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA WORKSHOP: SYMPOSIUM OUTCOMES AND THE ROAD AHEAD Time Speaker Org. Title

Judy Interactive communication workshop: FINDING THE HOPE Mann- 11:00-12:30 Lang & SAAMBR & Compass In this facilitated workshop session the key conservation messages and important actions that have emerged will be highlighted. Individuals will have the opportunity to set goals for impact Nancy and explore how to achieve success. Delegates will build on the commication tools introduced during the Symposium, and together distill key messages abd identify personal action goals for Baron the role ahead. The "power of the network" will also be explored. 12h30-13h00 PLENARY CLOSING SESSION AND AWARDS CEREMONY Chair Ezemvelo Board Peter Rutsch Time Speaker Org. Title Dudu 12:30-12:50 Ezemvelo Board Awards for Best Oral and Poster Presentations presented at the Symposium Ngidi Harriet 12:50-13:00 Davies- EWT Closing remarks and thanks Mostert 13h00-14h00 LUNCH

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