Some of the projects that we've completed or are currently working on. Feel free to contact us for more information

Black Lechwe management plant for Bangweulu Wetlands Park, Zambia

We worked with the Bengweulu Wetlands Management Board, a partnership between African Parks, the Zambian Wildlife Authority, and Community Resource Boards, to develop and refine a management plan for the iconic Black Lechwe. We dug through old maps and datasets, modern game counts and the modern remote sensing work done by African Parks to put together a picture of the population trends and movements of the Lechwe over several decades.

Veld monitoring, grazing, biodiversity and fire management for the forestry industry

Monitoring the veld and providing grazing and fire management recommendations for Mondi  and SAFCOL, including long-term monitoring of the veld alongside many specialist partners. We use large-scale grazing capacity models that can be applied to anything from a smallholding to a vast forestry enterprise covering hundreds of thousands of hectares and our long-term database can import historical data to calculate trends over many years.

WRC Catchment management guidelines: Rangeland management

We contributed five rangeland management guidelines (managing livestock paths, river crossings, grazing movement, grazing rotation, and preventing and rehabilitating overgrazing) for a Water Research Commission project, through Aurecon South Africa. Each chapter is a short, easily understandable set of guidelines for land users and officials.

Shire River Basin Management Program: Rangeland management guidelines

We wrote two rangeland management guidelines for a World Bank funded project in Malawi, through Aurecon South Africa. Each guideline was intended to be short, simple and aimed at landusers, and included finding an out-of-print book with the local names of the grasses of Malawi, thanks to the library at the National Botanical Gardens in Pretoria.

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Peer-reviewing scientific papers: talk at the 6th Research Skills Workshop

The annual research skills workshop is hosted by the GSSA and is aimed at improving the skills needed by a new generation of scientists. Themeda Eco Consulting presented a talk on how to tackle the daunting task of peer-reviewing scientific or technical papers. Client: Grassland Society of Southern Africa. July 2015

Proceedings of the 50th annual Congress of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa

The Grassland Society of Southern Africa celebrated its 50th year in 2015, with delegates from all over Africa, as well as several other continents, presenting their research and debating the latest developments in conservation, agriculture and global change. Themeda Eco Consulting designed, compiled and edited the 170-page proceedings. Client: Grassland Society of Southern Africa. Completed: July 2015

Proceedings of the 2014 Symposium on Contemporary Conservation Practice

The SCCP is an annual event, bringing scientists, conservationists, farmers and activists together to debate the latest developments in conserving our natural resources. Themeda Eco Consulting compiled, edited and laid out the 300-page conference proceedings. Client: Grassland Society of Southern Africa. Completed: October 2014.

Farm plan for cattle farm, Crocodile River Reserve, Gauteng  

Detailed veld condition assessment, pasture assessment, and veld management plan for a livestock farm in Guateng. Completed: March 2015

Krugersdorp Game Reserve: Baseline biological assessment for Environmental Management Plan

Coordinating multi-disciplinary biological survey and conducting veld condition surveys and landscape function analysis. Mapping and reporting. With Dimela Eco-Consulting, TerraAfrica, Limosella, Iggdrasil Scientific Services, V&L Landscape Architects and others. Client: Naledzi Environmental Consultants. Completed: February 2015

Biodiversity assessment, dairy farm, Kokstad

Plant diversity and habitat assessment of veld in East Griqualand for Environmental Impact Assessment, through Green Door Group. Client: Wilmott Farming. Completed April 2015

Grazing recommendations for Shire River Basin Management Project, Malawi

We drew up a simple set of grazing management recommendations for farmers and extension officers in Malawi, as part of a larger set of catchment management recommendations. We extensively researched the challenges faced by Malawian agriculture, including finding a list of names of grasses in common languages of Malawi, for the project. Client: Aurecon. Completed August 2014

Richard's Bay Industrial Development Zone

Detailed soil mapping and desktop analysis, together with TerraAfrica and Enviro-Insight. Client: Richard's Bay Industrial Development Zone. Completed May 2014

Marakele Park basic assessment report

Basic assessment of botanical and faunal diversity in the greater Marakele National Park, with Dimela Eco-Consulting, Naas Rautenbach, Jaco van Wyk and Alan Kemp. Client: Marataba Lodge. Completed

Marakele Park veld condition assessment and monitoring plan

Dry-season veld condition survey to establish bottleneck grazing capacity and compare actual to potential grazing capacity in the greater Marakele National Park. Recommendations for simple monitoring and reporting programme. Client: Marataba Lodge. Completed August 2014
Presented at the 2014 Symposium of Contemporary Conservation Practice

Grassland Management in Gauteng: Understanding your veld for improved production and conservation

Workshop organised in partnership with the Grassland Society of Southern Africa and the Crocodile River Reserve, March 2014.
Download the proceedings of the workshop, which included speakers like nature write Vincent Carruthers, Grass expert Frits van Oudtshoorn, range ecologists Alan Short and Mike Panagos, and Tsumbedzo Mudalohotse from the Grasslands Programme, and Mercia Komen describing the process that is taking the Crocodile River Reserve from a collection of private farms to a gazetted nature reserve

Veld management plan for Nyani Conservancy

Veld condition survey with grazing capacity and management plan, including burning blocks and monitoring plan. Client: Nyani Conservancy. Completed August 2014