SECTION 21(C) AND (I) GENERAL AUTHORISATION EXPLAINED

In today’s historically altered and ever changing anthropogenic and natural environment, developing infrastructure and other land-uses is becoming harder and harder to do without interacting with the aquatic ecosystems flowing through the landscape. Even a...

A first for South Africa: Online applications for biodiversity permits

Many of our clients at ENVASS sometimes require biodiversity permits – ranging from moving cycads, obtaining permits to keep them, hunting permits, permits for the transport of certain species and so on.   In the...

NAEIS (National Atmospheric Emission Inventory System) reporting system

ENVASS would like to remind your company to report to the NAEIS (National Atmospheric Emission Inventory System) reporting system before 31 March of 2019.   A data provider must submit the required information for the...

Wetlands: Bridging the Gap Between Policy and Site

The South African National Water Act (Act no. 36 of 1998) defines a wetland as “land which is transitional between terrestrial and aquatic systems where the water table is usually at, or near the surface...