Fauna and Flora Assessment Proposed Knopjeslaagte 115 High Density Development City of Tshwane, Gauteng Province December 2018 For Nali Sustainability Solutions Pirate Ncube DRAFT [email protected] By Enviro-Insight CC Samuel Laurence (Pr. Sci. Nat.) [email protected] Corné Niemandt (Pr. Sci. Nat.) [email protected] 1 , TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction and Project Purpose ........................................................................................................................................ 5 2 Baseline Description ............................................................................................................................................................ 5 2.1 Study Area .................................................................................................................................................................. 5 2.2 Study Limitations ........................................................................................................................................................ 5 3 Methods ............................................................................................................................................................................... 6 3.1 Desktop Survey .......................................................................................................................................................... 6 3.1.1 Flora Assessment ................................................................................................................................................... 6 3.1.2 Fauna Assessment ................................................................................................................................................. 7 3.1.3 GIS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 8 3.2 Field Survey ................................................................................................................................................................ 8 3.3 Species of Conservation Concern .............................................................................................................................. 8 3.4 Impact Assessment .................................................................................................................................................... 9 DRAFT 3.4.1 Potential Flora Impacts ........................................................................................................................................... 9 3.4.2 Potential Fauna Impacts ....................................................................................................................................... 10 3.4.3 Impact Analysis .................................................................................................................................................... 10 4 Results .............................................................................................................................................................................. 11 4.1 Regional Vegetation ................................................................................................................................................. 11 4.2 Gauteng Conservation Plan ...................................................................................................................................... 13 4.3 Gauteng Environmental Management Framework ................................................................................................... 14 4.4 Overview and Current Impacts ................................................................................................................................. 16 4.5 Habitats and Flora .................................................................................................................................................... 18 4.5.1 Degraded Grassland ............................................................................................................................................ 19 4.5.2 Egoli Grassland .................................................................................................................................................... 20 4.5.3 Transformed ......................................................................................................................................................... 22 2 , 4.6 Floral Species of Conservation Concern .................................................................................................................. 24 4.7 Faunal species of Conservation concern .................................................................................................................. 25 4.8 Habitat Sensitivity ..................................................................................................................................................... 26 5 Impact Assessment ........................................................................................................................................................... 28 5.1 Impacts on Flora ....................................................................................................................................................... 28 5.2 Impacts on Fauna ..................................................................................................................................................... 31 6 Conclusion ......................................................................................................................................................................... 34 6.1 General Recommendations and Mitigations ............................................................................................................. 34 7 References ........................................................................................................................................................................ 36 8 Appendix ........................................................................................................................................................................... 38 8.1 Appendix 1: Georeferenced photographs taken during the fieldwork survey. ........................................................... 38 8.2 Appendix 2: Flora species list ................................................................................................................................... 45 8.3 Appendix 3: Mammal species list ............................................................................................................................. 49 8.4 Appendix 4: Herpetofauna species list ................................DRAFT ..................................................................................... 52 8.5 Appendix 5: Avifauna species list ............................................................................................................................. 54 8.6 Appendix 6: Specialists Proof of Qualification and CV ............................................................................................. 65 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 2-1: Location of the study area. ......................................................................................................................................... 6 Figure 4-1: The study area in relation to the regional vegetation types (Mucina & Rutherford 2006). ....................................... 13 Figure 4-2: The study area in relation to the Gauteng Conservation Plan (2014). ..................................................................... 14 Figure 4-3: Gauteng Environmental Management Framework 2015. ........................................................................................ 16 Figure 4-4: Current Impacts recorded within the development area. ......................................................................................... 17 Figure 4-5: Specialist coverage (GPS tracks) and location of georeferenced photographs taken during the field survey. ........ 18 Figure 4-6: Delineated habitats within the study area. ............................................................................................................... 19 3 , Figure 4-7: Photographic evidence of Degraded Grassland habitat. .......................................................................................... 20 Figure 4-8: Photographic evidence of Egoli Grassland Habitat. ................................................................................................. 22 Figure 4-9: Transformed Habitat. ............................................................................................................................................... 23 Figure 4-10: Habitat sensitivity of the study area. ...................................................................................................................... 27 LIST OF TABLES Table 4-1: Attributes of the Egoli Granite Grassland vegetation type 12 Table 4-2: Plant species recorded in the Degraded Grassland during the site visit. 20 Table 4-3: Plant species recorded in the Egoli Grassland Habitat 21 Table 4-4: A list of potential flora Species of Conservation Concern within the study area 24 DRAFT 4 , 1 INTRODUCTION AND PROJECT PURPOSE Enviro-Insight CC was commissioned by Nali Environmental Solutions to perform an Appendix 6 Level Flora and Fauna Assessment for the proposed Knopjeslaagte 115 development, Gauteng Province,