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A change of the seaward boundary of Goukamma Marine Protected Area could increase conservation and fishery benefits

- Götz, Albrecht, Kerwath, Sven E, Attwood, Colin G, Sauer, Warwick H H

Authors: Götz, Albrecht , Kerwath, Sven E , Attwood, Colin G , Sauer, Warwick H H
Date: 2009
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/123503 , vital:35449 , https://doi10.4102/sajs.v105i9/10.102
Description: Goukamma Marine Protected Area (MPA) on the South African temperate South Coast has been shown to be effective in maintaining a spawning stock of roman, Chrysoblephus laticeps (Sparidae). The larval ecology and the oceanographic conditions in the area suggest a good potential for the enhancement of roman stocks outside the reserve through larval dispersal. A high rate of illegal fishing just inside the seaward boundary of the MPA could severely compromise its function. We suggest that a change of the seaward boundary of the reserve to coincide with a latitudinal line could increase its function as a harvest refuge for resident reef fishes such as roman, facilitate voluntary compliance and monitoring and prosecution of illegal fishing without a significant negative impact on the commercial linefishing fleet in the area. Simple adjustments such as the one proposed here could be attempted at a number of South African MPAs as they would be beneficial to achieve fishery and conservation goals alike.
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A far from passive record Anton van Wouw: The smaller works, AE Duffey: book review

- de Jager, Maureen

Authors: de Jager, Maureen
Date: 2009
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147402 , vital:38633 , https://0-hdl.handle.net.wam.seals.ac.za/10520/EJC38334
Description: Anton van Wouw : the smaller works is, as its title implies, concerned with the generally lesser-known smaller works of Dutch-born sculptor, Anton van Wouw. Using the measure of "half life-size and smaller" as a guideline, author Alexander Duffey provides a comprehensive and well-illustrated overview of the many full-length small sculptures, busts, relief panels and maquettes produced by Van Wouw between 1881 (nine years prior to his arrival in South Africa at the age of 28) and 1940. Naturalistically sculpted and generally cast in bronze, these smaller works are wide-ranging in their subject matter, depicting innocuous, commonplace scenes alongside aspects of Afrikaner history, representations of Boer and British leaders, and so-called "native studies" (p 11).
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Ameliorating poverty in South Africa through natural resource commercialisation : how can NGO's make a difference?

- Shackleton, Sheona E

Authors: Shackleton, Sheona E
Date: 2009
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6615 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016222
Description: [From Introduction] Some of the poorest rural people in South Africa are turning to the natural resource base for income generation. Using traditional skills they are converting a variety of wild resources into commodities that are sold in the market place. Wood and woven craft, medicines, fresh and processed wild foods, alcoholic beverages, building materials, fuelwood, dried mopane worms, cultural artefacts and brooms are just some examples of the array of natural resource products increasingly seen for sale in local and external markets. Many of the participants in this trade have minimal education, few assets to draw on, and little access to alternative sources of income or jobs. A significant proportion are women, with more than half heading their own households. Many come from households devastated by HIV/AIDS. The cash earned from selling natural resource products, however modest, is of critical importance to the households involved, preventing them from slipping deeper into poverty. “Since I have been making brooms my children no longer go to bed crying of hunger” observed one broom producer. NGOs, particularly those involved in rural development, can play an important role in assisting producers overcome some of the obstacles they face and in enhancing the opportunities to grow this informal sector. , This policy brief is based on the original brief made available for a workshop in August 2006. It draws on, amongst other sources, the results of several case studies of natural resource commercialisation undertaken across South Africa. The project was funded by the South Africa-Netherlands Programme on Alternatives in Development (SANPAD), BP South Africa and the National Research Foundation (NRF). The Center for International Forestry Research, with support from SIDA, provided the funding to share these findings with key stakeholders including government policy and decision makers.
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Arthropod Fauna of the UAE, Vol. 2, A. van Harten (Ed.): book review

- Villet, Martin H

Authors: Villet, Martin H
Date: 2009
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/451625 , vital:75065 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC32810
Description: This volume extends the UAE's catalogue of arthropods from 1400 species to 1790 species, and describes 83 new species, four new genera and even a new tribe. The chapters include about two arachnid taxa (pseudoscorpions and cunaxid mites), and cover a total of 63 families, 26 of them previously not recorded from the country. Three chapters deal with entomobryomorph springtails, earwigs and barklice, respectively, and the rest are focused on families in the 'megadiverse' orders Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera and Diptera.
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Can eyeflecks be used to sex African Black Oystercatchers Haematopus moquini in the field?

- Kohler, Sophie, Bonnevie, Bo T, Dano, Stéphanie

Authors: Kohler, Sophie , Bonnevie, Bo T , Dano, Stéphanie
Date: 2009
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/448070 , vital:74695 , https://doi.org/10.2989/OSTRICH.2009.80.2.8.835
Description: Morphometric differences between males and females are a common feature among oystercatcher species (Hockey 1996), although breeding partners often appear similar when observed from a distance. Combinations of different biometric parameters such as bill size and shape, body mass, wing and tarsus lengths have been used to discriminate males and females in the field in European Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus (Zwarts et al. 1996), American Black Oystercatchers Haematopus bachmani (Guzzetti et al. 2008) and the three oystercatcher species present in New Zealand (Baker 1973). Sexual dimorphism also occurs in the African Black Oystercatcher Haematopus moquini, an endemic species living on the coasts of Namibia and South Africa. In this species, females tend to have longer and sharper bills than males (Hockey 1981, Hockey 2005).
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