The Working for Water program is a governmental initiative that launched in the 1995 and has had the goal of eliminating the alien invasive plant species that threaten the native flora of South Africa. Working for water has aimed to reduce alien invasive plants from across South Africa. The program also has a secondary goal of employing people from disadvantaged background with a subtarget of getting more women involved in the workforce since women have a higher rate of unemployment in South Africa. The group has cleared over 2.5 million hectares of land from alien invasive plants and has employed over 20,000 people on an annual basis.
Source:
van Wilgen, Brian W., and Andrew Wannenburgh. "Co-facilitating invasive species control, water conservation and poverty relief: achievements and challenges in South Africa's Working for Water programme." Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 19 (2016): 7-17.
The goals of the organization are to remove as many acres of invasive plants as possible and to employ as many people as possible. The secondary goals of the program are to train the people who are employed to learn to use machinery and learn skills that will help them get other jobs. The Working for Water program allows the employees to get first hand experience identifying plants and using biochemicals and other remedies to get ride of the non-native plants. These skills allow them to look for more permanent work with companies or they can use their plant identification skills to become National Park rangers and lead researchers and field tours into the National Parks. Another goal of the program is to To reduce the density of established, terrestrial, invasive alien plants, through labor intensive, mechanical and chemical control, by 22% per annum.
Sources:
van Wilgen, Brian W., and Andrew Wannenburgh. "Co-facilitating invasive species control, water conservation and poverty relief: achievements and challenges in South Africa's Working for Water programme." Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 19 (2016): 7-17.
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