The guideline is aimed at assisting municipalities, regulatory authorities and landowners in the Thicket Biome to successfully regulate land use and biodiversity in threatened ecosystems by allowing decision makers to promote, protect and conserve vulnerable ecological functions and services. (CEN Integrated Environmental Management Unit). Click here to download (~18 MB)

Workshop proceedings from a facilitated two day workshop in October 2018 with the objective of developing a research framework that could guide the future research and praxis towards sustainable use and restoration of the Subtropical Thicket. The workshop was attended by 65 thicket experts and stakeholders. (Grant- Biggs et al., 2019)

The STEP project aimed at producing a thorough and accurate assessment and conservation planning document that described and mapped the Broad Habitat Units of Thicket and related vegetation, as well as provided a means to determine what constitutes these Habitat Units of the Thicket biome in South Africa. STEP also provides a checklist of angiosperm flora and in some cases the avifauna.

The second workshop was supported by 27 thicket experts prior to the Thicket Forum in June 2019 at Addo Elephant National Park. Following the workshop it was unanimously agreed that a group should be selected to co-ordinate and champion research and implementation in thicket. (Grant-Biggs et al,., 2020)

This book by Richard Cowling and Shirley Pierce covers a wide range of topics including the history of the region and ecology of the Thicket.
The author and publisher have made the following electronic version free for anyone to download and print: click here.