Wetland Assessment Services

Wetlands play a number of roles in the environment, principally water purification, flood control, and shoreline stability. Wetlands are also considered the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems, serving as home to a wide range of flora and fauna life. In addition to the above, wetlands provide essential goods and services to humanity by providing opportunities for grazing, fishing, hunting and sources of building material.

Wetlands and riparian areas are highly valuable natural systems that perform a variety of ecosystem services, both directly and indirectly related to human well-being. The National Environmental Management Act and several other pieces of legislation recognise the critical need to protect, rehabilitate and conserve wetlands as a history of uninformed and poorly planned infrastructural developments in the vicinity of wetlands has significantly impacted on these important ecological resources in our country.

Where proposed developments have the potential to impact on wetland / riparian areas various assessments and tools are required pre-development to gain an understanding of the natural environment and guide the developmental process. In this regard AFZELIA has the necessary expertise to undertake the following wetland / riparian assessments and studies to appropriately guide the development process: