Biodiversity & Community Greening

Biodiversity and Community Greening Learning Commons

Learning biodiversity conservation and sustainable use practices at a local level, forms the focus of this Sustainability Commons Learning Project. It involves learning activities such as:

• Identifying, auditing, valuing and monitoring local biodiversity
• Assessing how ecosystem services are being used in local contexts
• Surveying what has changed over time
• Identifying threats to biodiversity
• Participating in biodiversity land-use planning
• Identifying important culture and biodiversity links
• Planting trees in community contexts
• Participating in biodiversity management practices (e.g.clearing of invasive species)

Key partners in this Sustainability Commons Learning Network include (amongst others): the Rhodes University Environmental Learning Research Centre, the Cape Action for People and Environment Programme (C.A.P.E.); the South African National Biodiversity Institute; the Endangered Wildlife Trust; the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa; East Cape Parks; South African National Parks; the Makana Municipality; the Albany Museum Herbarium; the Millennium Tree Planting Project; and the local Botanical Society. This Sustainability Commons Learning Project is a project of the Makana Regional Centre of Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development.