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31-40 of 40 for the Category : Botanical and the Subcategory : Botanical - General

Pioneer Species

( Article Type: Explanation )

Pioneer species are the first species to colonise a new area (for example, a new island that has emerged from the sea or an area that has been disturbed by large-scale activity such as a volcanic eruption or man's clearance of a piece of land for d

Renewable Resources

( Article Type: Explanation )

These are environmental resources that are continuously renewing themselves. For example, energy that is harnessed from the sun, wind and waves is renewable.

Rivers & Wetlands

( Article Type: Overview )

Rivers and wetlands provide a range of goods and services for the benefit of people, but need a healthy ecosystem in order to provide these.

Transfrontier (Peace) Parks

( Article Type: Explanation )

The Peace Parks Foundation, a Section 21 company not for gain, was started in February 1997 to facilitate the establishment of transfrontier conservation areas, which are also commonly referred to as peace parks.

Tropical Rain Forest

( Article Type: Explanation )

Tropical rain forests appear like a girdle around the equator and occupy approximately 8% of the earth's land surface, yet they comprise about half of all growing wood on the face of the earth and provide habitats for at least two fifths of all the

Vetiver Grass

( Article Type: Explanation )

Vetiver grass (Vetiveria zizanioides), sometimes called ‘Mauritius grass’, is a coarse grass that can be used as a natural barrier to prevent erosion of soil.

Wetlands

( Article Type: Explanation )

Wetlands (vleis, bogs, swamps, sponges or marshes) are vital ecosystems, which have been described as some of the most productive in the world.

Wilderness Area

( Article Type: Explanation )

Under the IUCN’s Framework for Protected Areas the highest form of protection an area can achieve is a Wilderness Area.

Wildlife

( Article Type: Overview )

Wildlife has value. Intrinsic value, from a point of view that believes all living creatures have a right to life regardless of their value to humankind, but also instrumental value to people.

Wildlife Management

( Article Type: Overview )

The future of private and public wildlife management (or any combination of the two) and their contribution towards an African Conservation Strategy will rest on mixing ecology, economy and social responsibility in order to achieve an equitable tripl