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APPLICATION FOR SAMPLING AND COLLECTION OF ANIMAL AND PLANT SPECIES
FOR ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES IN KWAZULU-NATAL.
NB From 1 December 2005 there will be an admin fee of R50.00 per permit which is payable before the permit can be issued. Kindly submit payment in the form of a cheque, or deposit the amount into our baking account: First National Bank - Midlands Mall Branch Code 257355 Account number 62117490805 and submit proof of payment together with your application.
Your full reply to all the following will greatly expedite the reviewing of your application.
1. What are your contact details (particularly e-mail address and fax number)? Please ensure that you include your identity/passport number as well as your postal address.
2. If you are based outside South Africa, please give the contact details of the person in the South African collections-based institution with whom you are collaborating (N.B. this collaboration is compulsory for all foreign-based applicants).
What are the objectives of the project?
Please give the following project registration details: a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) the institution to which you belong; the level of the project (e.g. Honours, PhD, postdoctoral); project leader or supervisor, and; brief description of research methods, particularly sampling methods;
Time frames for the various project stages;
Details of reporting process i.e. thesis, report, published paper or article etc,
Desired outcomes of the project; a brief (maximum 300 words) overview of the project to date.
5. If the project is not registered with an institution, give the rationale for, and the objectives of, the sampling.
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Where do you propose to sample in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN)? Please give precise localities (list the protected areas, forests, farms etc.).
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What species do you want to sample and/or collect, and approximately what number of each will be collected? Will this have any detrimental effect on the populations from which the specimens are taken
(i.e. is the sampling sustainable)? Please give evidence (e.g. references, data on population sizes and sustainable yields) in support of your statements wherever possible.
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Will the collection of specimens be biased towards any sex or age group?
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If you propose to sample or collect in KZN Conservation Service reserves instead of elsewhere in the province of KZN, give reasons for this choice (e.g. the species concerned do not occur outside reserves in the province).
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Will there be any by-catch, and if so, will this by-catch be unavoidable, of what will it likely consist, and will large numbers of non-target organisms be collected.

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Do you intend to sell any of the specimens at any time?
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If you propose to collect or capture and release animals, what methods and types of trap will you use and what measures will you take to prevent habitat destruction, deaths (if live capture is to be done), and the introduction of disease and other undesirable effect?
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Would you be prepared to provide recommendations on the conservation management of the species?
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When do you want to collect, please give dates.
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Where will the specimens be deposited.
PLEASE TAKE CAREFUL NOTE OF THE FOLLOWING IF YOU INTEND COLLECTING IN THE
COAST REGION : a) If the collecting is a once off collection your application will follow the normal course of recommendation and approval which will be sought and obtained by the permit office on receipt of your application in response to this questionnaire. b) If your collecting involves more than one collection event but you do not intend collecting in any of the protected areas, a) above will be applicable. c) If your collecting involves more than one collection event, and you intend collecting in one or more of the protected areas in this region, your project must be registered with E KZN Wildlife. This must be done by contacting Craig Mulqueeny on e-mail craigm@kznwildlife.com
or fax number 031 2051547. d) If your collecting spans the entire province, including protected areas in the Coast, you need to submit the application to the permit office to deal with the rest of the province in terms of a) above and contact Mr
Mulqueeny in terms of c) above to register the project.
The registration of projects in the Coast Region must be dealt with by the applicant and Mr Mulqueeny, and will not involve the permit office until the registration process has been completed. THIS MAY BE A LENGTHY
PROCESS.
If you have applied to collect in any of the other two regions (uKhahlamba Drakensberg and Zululand) this application will be dealt with, (by the permit office) separately but in tandem with your registering of your project.
You may therefore receive two separate permits, one covering the uKhahlamba Drakensberg and Zululand and at a later stage one covering the Coast Region.
The Coast Region stretches from the Umtamvuna river in the south to the Mozambique border in the north. It includes all the towns along the coast and cities such as the greater Durban metro, Stanger, Tongaat, Empangeni,
Mtubatuba, Hluhluwe and the following protected areas: Greater St Lucia Wetland Park (including Mapelane
Nature Reserve, Eastern Shores, Western Shores, False Bay Park, Ozabeni, uMkhuze Game Reserve, St Lucia
Game Park, Tewati Wilderness), Ubombo Mountain Nature Reserve, Makasa Nature Reserve, Siyaya Coastal Park,
(Including Umlalazi and Amatgulu), Beachwood Mangroves, Umhlanga Lagoon, Harold Johnson Nature Reserve,
Enseleni Nature Reserve, Krantzkloof Nature Reserve, Bluff Nature Reserve, Vernon Crookes Nature Reserve,
Skyline Nature Reserve, Oribi Gorge Nature Reserve, Umtamvna Nature Reserve, Mpenjati Nature Reserve.