scholarly journals Oliver Tambo International Airport, South Africa: Land-Use Conflicts Between Airports and Wildlife Habitats

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance Robinson ◽  
Kevin Mearns ◽  
Tracey McKay
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Buffer Zone ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
International Airport ◽  
Passenger Safety ◽  
Density Analysis ◽  
Kernel Density Analysis

Airports stimulate tourism and trade and are a vital link in any country’s tourism infrastructure and economy. Large airports such as South Africa’s busiest airport, the OR Tambo International Airport, in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, are usually located on the periphery of cities, usually on land that forms part of the peri-urban economy, reserved perhaps for farming or left undeveloped. As a result, such land often becomes a wildlife haven within the more “urbanized” or developed areas. Unfortunately, this places wildlife, especially birds on a collision course with aircraft. So much so that bird and other animal strikes cost the aviation industry millions of US dollars annually. Therefore, it is essential to reduce the number of wildlife strikes, not only lower the risk of damage to aircraft, increase passenger safety and reduce operational delays, but also prevent a decline in local wildlife populations. Thus, this paper argues that South Africa must improve its management of land-use close to airports to minimize the potential for wildlife strikes. In that regard, this study catalogs the different habitats and land-use types surrounding OR Tambo International Airport, identifying potential bird hazard zones using kernel density analysis. This identifies which areas pose the highest risk of bird strikes. Although land-use and land zoning by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) recommends a 13 km buffer zone around airports, this study shows that land-use in the buffer zone must also take potential bird strikes into account. Thus, airport operators need to work with land-use planning authorities and neighboring stakeholders to do so.

scholarly journals Managing raptors to reduce wildlife strikes at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig K. Pullins ◽  
Travis L. Guerrant ◽  
Scott F. Beckerman ◽  
Brian E. Washburn
Keyword(s):  
Significant Risk ◽  
Federal Aviation Administration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
International Airport ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wildlife Damage Management ◽  
Wildlife Populations ◽  
The Cost

Nationally, wildlife-aircraft collisions (wildlife strikes) have been increasing over the past 25 years; denoted in the National Wildlife Strike Database that has been maintained by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) since 1990. Increasing wildlife populations and air traffic coupled with quieter, faster aircraft create a significant risk to aviation safety; the cost to the civil aviation industry is an estimated $937 million dollars annually. USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services (WS) provides technical and direct assistance to over 850 airports and airbases around the United States, including Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD). At ORD, raptors are one of the most commonly struck bird guild and accounted for at least 25% of damaging strikes from 2010-2013. An Integrated Wildlife Damage Management (IWDM) program is implemented at ORD to reduce the presence of wildlife on the airfield, consequently lowering the risk of wildlife strikes. Professional airport wildlife biologists at ORD concentrate much of their efforts on raptor management due to the high strike risk these birds pose to aircraft on the airfield itself. A variety of techniques are currently used to manage raptor populations at ORD. Concurrently, research is being conducted to evaluate the efficacy of the Red-tailed Hawk relocation program at the airport, as well as to assess their movements within the airfield environment.

scholarly journals Using social marketing concepts to promote the integration of systematic conservation plans in land-use planning in South Africa

Oryx ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelika Wilhelm-Rechmann ◽  
Richard M. Cowling ◽  
Mark Difford
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Social Marketing ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Significant Information ◽  
Marketing Analysis ◽  
Conservation Plans

AbstractLocal land-use planning procedures are increasingly recognized as potentially crucial to ensure off-reserve biodiversity protection. Mainstreaming systematic conservation planning maps in these decision-making procedures has been proposed as a mechanism to achieve this. However, research is lacking on how to convince officials and politicians to change their behaviour and include the maps in their decision-making. Social marketing is a tool commonly used to effect behaviour change in many sectors but its application in conservation is limited. In the formative research phase of a social marketing study we interviewed locally elected politicians in four coastal municipalities in South Africa. We found that conservation and environmental issues play virtually no role in their work; however, they do attribute value to the natural environment. Land-use planning procedures are considered important but dysfunctional and the role of conservation is perceived negatively in their municipalities. Their information-seeking behaviour is clearly localized. We present a marketing analysis of these results and argue for improving the attractiveness of the product: the maps should be more option- than veto-based and should identify locally relevant ecosystem services. Locally significant information should be provided at a time and location convenient for politicians. We conclude that engagement with councillors should be proactive, refer to land-use planning and services from ‘nature’ rather than ‘biodiversity’ and use terminology and information that is locally oriented and meaningful from the politician's perspective. The analysis highlights the usefulness of the marketing approach for conservation.

scholarly journals Managing raptors to reduce wildlife strikes at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig K. Pullins ◽  
Travis L. Guerrant ◽  
Scott F. Beckerman ◽  
Brian E. Washburn
Keyword(s):  
Significant Risk ◽  
Federal Aviation Administration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
International Airport ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wildlife Damage Management ◽  
Wildlife Populations ◽  
The Cost

Nationally, wildlife-aircraft collisions (wildlife strikes) have been increasing over the past 25 years; denoted in the National Wildlife Strike Database that has been maintained by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) since 1990. Increasing wildlife populations and air traffic coupled with quieter, faster aircraft create a significant risk to aviation safety; the cost to the civil aviation industry is an estimated $937 million dollars annually. USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services (WS) provides technical and direct assistance to over 850 airports and airbases around the United States, including Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD). At ORD, raptors are one of the most commonly struck bird guild and accounted for at least 25% of damaging strikes from 2010-2013. An Integrated Wildlife Damage Management (IWDM) program is implemented at ORD to reduce the presence of wildlife on the airfield, consequently lowering the risk of wildlife strikes. Professional airport wildlife biologists at ORD concentrate much of their efforts on raptor management due to the high strike risk these birds pose to aircraft on the airfield itself. A variety of techniques are currently used to manage raptor populations at ORD. Concurrently, research is being conducted to evaluate the efficacy of the Red-tailed Hawk relocation program at the airport, as well as to assess their movements within the airfield environment.

scholarly journals Rates and patterns of habitat loss across AUTHORS: South Africa’s vegetation biomes

2021 ◽  
Vol 117 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew L. Skowno ◽  
Debbie Jewitt ◽  
Jasper A. Slingsby
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Land Cover Change ◽  
Habitat Loss ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Succulent Karoo ◽  
Coastal Belt

The loss of natural habitat resulting from human activities is the principal driver of biodiversity loss in terrestrial ecosystems globally. Metrics of habitat loss are monitored at national and global scales using various remote sensing based land-cover change products. The metrics go on to inform reporting processes, biodiversity assessments, land-use decision-making and strategic planning in the environmental and conservation sector. We present key metrics of habitat loss across South Africa at national and biome levels for the first time. We discuss the spatial patterns and trends, and the implications and limitations of the metrics. Approximately 22% of the natural habitat of South Africa has been lost since the arrival of European settlers. The extent and the rate of habitat loss are not uniform across South Africa. The relatively mesic Grassland, Fynbos and Indian Ocean Coastal Belt biomes have lost the most habitat, while the arid Nama-Karoo, Succulent Karoo and Desert have lost the least. Rates of loss increased across all biomes in recent years (2014–2018), indicating that the historical drivers of change (i.e. expansion of croplands, human settlements, plantation forestry and mining) are intensifying overall. We should caution that the losses we report are conservative, because the land-cover change products do not capture degradation within natural ecosystems. Preventing widespread biodiversity losses and securing the benefits we derive from biodiversity requires slowing and preventing further habitat degradation and loss by using existing land-use planning and regulatory tools to their full potential.

Integrated Odour Management at Western Australian Wastewater Treatment Plants

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Wallis ◽  
R. Oma
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Buffer Zone ◽  
Term Operation ◽  
Zone Management ◽  
Plant Operations

Western Australia is experiencing rapid growth and this has increased the risk of encroachment of residences into the area surrounding wastewater treatment plants. The conflict between the long term operation of a treatment plant and the desire to build residences near treatment plants must be resolved by robust land use planning. This paper describes the management of odour risks for wastewater treatment plants in Western Australia using odour modelling, community surveys, land use planning, improved plant operations and buffer zone management.

scholarly journals How to build science-action partnerships for local land-use planning and management: lessons from Durban, South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Cockburn ◽  
Mathieu Rouget ◽  
Rob Slotow ◽  
Debra Roberts ◽  
Richard Boon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Planning And Management

scholarly journals Towards compatible land use planning around public airports (Applied case study: Marsa Alam International Airport)

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-65
Author(s):  
Abdel Latif .Younes ◽  
Abdelzaher Mostafa ◽  
Mohamed Ouf ◽  
Shady Noureldin ◽  
Sahar AbdElhady
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
International Airport
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