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Clearing the Kouga Catchment of invasives
The WWF Water Neutral Scheme’s pilot project with SAB Limited is focusing on clearing two sites of invasive alien plants which will offset the company’s water use at its Newlands Brewery in Cape Town and its Ibhayi Brewery in Port Elizabeth.
On the slopes of Cape Town’s Table Mountain an area of 172 ha of mainly long-leafed wattle (Acacia longifolia) will be cleared. The site was chosen as it directly feeds the catchment which supplies the Newlands Brewery with its water. This clearing process will be implemented by SANParks.In the Eastern Cape’s Kouga Catchment a 172 ha area of invasives, mainly black wattles (Acacia mearnsii) will be cleared. The Kouga Catchment was chosen as it feeds the Kouga Dam, one of the main water sources for the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan and thus the Ibhayi Brewery. This clearing process is being implemented on private land called Terrapi.