Partners
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SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE (SANBI)
SANBI is responsible for exploring, revealing, celebrating and championing
biodiversity for the benefit and employment of all South Africa’s people.
Perhaps best known for being the custodian of the nine National Botanical
Gardens in SA, SANBI is also a respected authority in research into the
indigenous, naturalized and alien flora of southern Africa. The institute’s
knowledge management and planning branch strives to make biodiversity science
more accessible through various mainstreaming projects and initiatives. SANBI is
also responsible for ensuring that biodiversity knowledge influences policy,
management and decision making. Membership of BotSoc entitles one free entry
into any of SANBI’s gardens.
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IUCN
IUCN,
International Union for Conservation of Nature, helps the world find pragmatic
solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges. It
supports scientific research, manages field projects all over the world and
brings governments, non-government organizations, United Nations agencies,
companies and local communities together to develop and implement policy, laws
and best practice.
IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global
environmental network - a democratic membership union with more than 1,000
government and NGO member organizations, and almost 11,000 volunteer scientists
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CUSTODIANS OF RARE AND ENDANGERED WILD FLOWERS (CREW)
CREW, the Custodians of Rare and Endangered Wildflowers, aims to eqio a network
of volunteers from a range of socio-economic backgrounds with the means to
monitor and conserve South Africa’s threatened plant species. The programme
links volunteers with their local conservation agencies and particularly with
local land stewardship initiatives to ensure the conservation of key sites for
threatened plant species. |
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WWF
WWF is one of the world's largest and most
effective independent organisations dedicated to the conservation of nature,
operating in around 100 countries, supported by nearly five million people.
WWF?s mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and
to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by conserving the
world's biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural
resources is sustainable promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful
consumption. WWF South Africa currently has seven main programmes; Climate
Change, Trade and Investment, Environmental Education, Species, Marine,
Freshwater and the Ecosystems Partnership.
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MAZDA WILDLIFE FUND
The Mazda Wildlife Fund has
supported conservation in South Africa for many years by providing vehicles to
projects. The Mazda Wildlife Fund supports the work done by the Birds of Prey
Programme through supplying the essential vehicles for three projects. The Algoa
Raptor Project, the Kalahari Raptor Project and the Lowveld Large Bird Project
are dependent on these vehicles to continue raptor conservation work. The Mazda
Wildlife Fund with the Conservation Leadership Group was the overall winner of
the 2004/5 American Chamber of Commmerce's Star of Africa. The Mazda Wildlife
Fund sponsors the CLG's Mazda Double Cab, 2.5 Turbo Diesel Bakkie.
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CAPE ACTION FOR PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT (C.A.P.E.)
Cape Action for People and the Environment (C.A.P.E.) is a partnership of
government and civil society aimed at conserving and restoring the biodiversity
of the Cape Floristic Region and the adjacent marine environment, while
delivering significant benefits to the people of the region. C.A.P.E. has 23
signatory partners - government departments, municipalities, non-governmental
and community-based organisations and conservation agencies. All these
organisations and a broader base of stakeholders are united in a common strategy
around biodiversity conservation. The programme is coordinated through various
governance and co-ordination structures.
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CLIMATE ACTION PARTNERSHIP (CAP)
The Climate Action
Partnership (CAP) is a powerful alliance of South African environmental NGO’s
that aims to reduce the impacts of climate change and increase the resilience of
South Africa’s biodiversity and communities by promoting intact ecosystems that
are connected at a landscape level, building human capacity and implementing
climate change adaptation and mitigation. The partners include: BirdLife South
Africa; the Botanical Society of South Africa; Conservation South Africa (CSA);
the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT); the Wilderness Foundation; the Wildlands
Conservation Trust; the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa
(WESSA), World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa (WWF-SA).
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BIRDLIFE
The mission of BirdLife South Africa is to
promote the enjoyment, conservation and understanding and study of wild birds
and their habitat. The organisation has 8 000 members in 40 branches and
affiliates and runs national and branch programmes on conservation, education,
training and awareness. BirdLife South Africa is a partner organisation for
BirdLife International, the world's largest voluntary organisation of
nationally-based organisations, present in 103 countries worldwide.
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CITY OF CAPE TOWN
The City of Cape Town is a single
municipal structure that replaced the Cape Metropolitan Council and the six
metropolitan local councils that historically comprised local government in Cape
Town. Cape Town is known internationally as a global biodiversity hotspot under
extreme threat. The City's Biodiversity Network has identified about 500
vegetation sites that need to be protected, in order to conserve a
representative sample of the City's unique biodiversity. Apart from managing 23
City nature reserves, various biodiversity management and conservation projects
are run by the Environmental Resource Management Department.
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NATIONAL LOTTERY
The National Lottery has sponsored the Botanical Society with funds to enable
the reprinting of the 4 posters, Forest; Fynbos; Valley Thicket; and Grassland
which is targeted for schools as an educational resource for teachers. |
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PROUDLY SOUTH AFRICAN
Proudly South African is the “buy local” campaign launched in 2001
by government, organised business, organised labour and community organisations
(the constituencies represented in the National Economic Development and Labour
Council – Nedlac) to boost job creation and pride in “local” by promoting South
African companies and their ‘homegrown’ products and services.
Buying
South African stimulates an increased demand for locally-produced products and
services. This translates into the safeguarding of existing employment
opportunities, economic growth, and the creation of more quality employment
opportunities in our country. The Botanical Society is endorsed by Proudly SA
and we adhere to its conditions and criteria. |
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