African Wildlife and Environment Issue 67

infrastructure and sustainability initiative are the contribution to improved water quality and quantity; and the achievement of water neutrality targets through removal and rehabilitation projects. Much of the work WESSA does currently in relation to the conservation and promotion of ecological infrastructure is the removal of alien and invasive plant species that are a major threat to water sustainability in the country. Our flagship programme in this regard is, appropriately for where this conference is being CONSERVATION

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Schools Programme Youth Development

Environmental governance

Education centres We have various programmes and projects that fall within these areas. All of these involve, at least to some degree, aspects relating to participatory water management, but I would like, in the interests of time, to highlight only a few of them. Among the primary aims of our ecological

Prof Michael Kidd with delegates at the GPWMN conference

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