WWF SA calls on public to support grasslands protection campaign
The Sneeuwberg area near Memel and the Seekoeivlei Nature Reserve in the Free State is home to some of the most sensitive and unique biodiversity in the area.
It includes vulnerable and endangered grasslands as well as wetland habitats which house various endemic plant and bird species. Being a high water yield area, with several important river systems traversing it, these grasslands are also of high value to our freshwater systems.
Conservation authorities in the Free State have published an intention to declare 17,456ha of these grasslands a protected environment. This could be the first protected environment to be declared in the Free State, but it needs public support.
WWF is calling on the public to sign the register before 20 March 2015 and help to influence the historic declaration.
