Flora and Fauna assessments

Flora and Fauna assessments are essential for most projects and consider several standards, most important of which are the IFC standards.

. These specialist studies also take into account national and provincial requirements for both international and local assessments. The following aspects are identified and assessed for flora and fauna assessments:

Any flora and fauna species of special concern both expected to occur in the area (from literature) as well as recorded from the area (during field work);
A list of culturally important plants recorded from the site;
A list of alien and invasive species and related legislation;
A list of all plant and animal species recorded from the study site;
A categorization of the vegetation of the study site into community types with associated maps; and
The overall ecological sensitivity of the area with associated maps.

In addition to these standard flora and fauna studies, we also do several other aspects of this discipline including, but not limited to: