Environmental policy and administrative management

The project seeks to, within the next two years, curb degradation and reclaim 5000m2 of highly eroded areas in the Senqu and Khubelu river catchments within the Molika-liko and Khalahali community councils. Though the project will be based mostly in two villages and seeks primarily to adress issues surrounding land degradation, it has far reaching implications in that it impacts on the general environment by reducing the pressure and over exploitation of other natural resources by communities as their livelihoods are compromised thus sustaining local biodiversity, improving quality of water, hence costs and sustainability of water projects downstream as sedimentation is reduced in dams, contributing to the fight against climate change as more plants will be planted thus increasing the carbon sink.

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