KNYSNA NEWS - “Knysna and surrounds burnt to the ground in June 2017 and two years down the line rural landowners still have to cope with what nature has bestowed upon them,” says Cobus Meiring of the Southern Cape Landowners Initiative (SCLI).

“Besides the loss of kilometres of expensive fences, underground and above the ground irrigation systems, and the destruction of crops and trees by the out-of-control wildfire, almost all landowners in the burn scar are confronted with aggressive invasive alien plant regrowth, which they simply cannot ignore.”

As part of the SCLI Cape Floristic Corridor Revival and Training Programme, funded by the Table Mountain Fund (TMF), the Southern Cape landowners Initiative is offering to compile Invasive Alien Plant Control Plans for private landowners along the Knysna, Goukamma, Touw, Kaaimans and Great Brak rivers. 

The Invasive Alien Plant Control Plans are compiled according to a standard that is acceptable to the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA).

Read more in Knysna-Plett Herald and online.

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