| Biodiversity management | ||||||||||
| Coal | Sands and base metals | |||||||||
| Description | Inyanda | Tshikodeni | KZN Sands | Rosh Pinah | Zincor | Namakwa Sands | ||||
| KZN - Hillendale & Port Durnford |
CPC | BSB | CPS | Smelter | ||||||
| Location/size of land owned, leased, managed or adjacent to protected areas of high biodiversity value | Land adjacent to protected areas | X | √ Adjacent to Kruger National Park, within Gariep Centre of Plant Endemism |
√ | √ | √ Adjacent to Sperr Gebied/ Richtersveld National Park/ endemic hotspot area |
√ Adjacent to RAMSAR Site |
√ | √ | √ |
| Size of land assessed (hectares) | 1748 | 22 386 | 5 419 | 66 | 1 251 | 296 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Significant impacts of activities, product and services on biodiversity in protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value outside protected areas | Buildings (farm buildings, mine buildings, etc) | 12 | 72 | 181 | 1 | 23 | 38 | Area not assessed 2009 | ||
| Cultivation | 249 | 709 | 342 | 25 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Grassland/dune scrub | 18 | 0 | 526 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Mine tailings/pits/bare soil/airfields | 132 | 391 | 3 | 121 | 107 | |||||
| Open water | 4 | 197 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Plantations/woodland | 57 | 103 | 25 | 16 | 0 | 9 | ||||
| Grassland (natural) | 1 372 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | ||||
| Grassland secondary/ transformed grassland |
35 | 0 | 157 | 5 | 0 | 113 | ||||
| Open bushveld | 0 | 663 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Riparian forest | 0 | 473 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Sand banks | 0 | 177 | 0 | 0 | 616 | 0 | ||||
| Stream vegetation (bushveld) | 0 | 412 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Thicket and encroached bushveld | 0 | 4 469 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Transformed/degraded bushveld | 0 | 590 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Wetland grassland | 0 | 40 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 3 | ||||
| Bushveld | 0 | 4 457 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Floodplain bushveld | 0 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Inland forest | 0 | 235 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Mopani bushveld | 0 | 5 710 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Mountain bushveld | 0 | 3 921 | 0 | 0 | 455 | 0 | ||||
| Coastal forest | 0 | 0 | 679 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Sugar cane | 0 | 0 | 3 091 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Desert wash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 0 | ||||
| Habitats protected/restored | Protected | X | √ Kruger National Park |
X | X | √ | √ RAMSAR site |
√ | √ | √ |
| Restored | Red data species relocated to offset area under MTPBA management |
Adjacent to protected area - impacts of mining limited due to under- ground activities |
X | X | X | √ Wetland with red data species |
X | X | X | |
| Strategies, actions and plans for managing impacts on biodiversity | Exxaro biodiversity strategy (draft) | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| Management plan (EMPR) | √ | √ | √ Only Hillendale — Port Durnford no mining activities |
√ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
| Biodiversity action plans (BAP) | √ First BAP draft under way Relocation strategy of Frithia humilis with SANBI and MTPBA |
√ Draft update of certain sections in 2010 |
√ BAP draft under way — Hillendale only |
√ BAP draft under way |
X | √ BAP draft in compi- lation |
X | X | X | |
| IUCN red list and national conservation lists species affected by operations | √ Recorded Frithia humilis — Relocated in conjunction with SANBI and MTPBA |
√ Various species recorded but not currently affected by underground mining operations. Potential that future opencast operations may impact on red data listed species |
√ Recorded and currently affected (Hillendale – habitat transformation) |
X None recorded to date |
√ Recorded various IUCN red data plant species – affected during previous exploration activities. High number of endemic species present and recorded. |
√ Recorded but not currently affected – population of Kniphofia typhoides stable and healthy |
√ Recorded and affected by mining activity |
√ Recorded and affected by mining activity |
√ Recorded and affected by mining activity |
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Note: Figures have been rounded