Foresight

Report

Prof Richard Cowling Chairperson of the Biodiversity Sector Working Group says "South Africa needs to document and preserve its biodiversity as part of a global commitment, this resource also forms the basis of many enterprises that have great potential for sustainable economic growth. The Biodiversity Foresight Report, 1999 (National Research and Technology Foresight Project, Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology) is the first step in a process that will continue to provide strategic directions for the documentation and wise use of South Africa's biodiversity."

This document shows that biodiversity is central to many of the other sectors addressed in the Foresight Project, especially tourism, the environment, agriculture and rural poor who depend largely on indigenous biodiversity to sustain their lifestyles.

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