Plantings withheld on ecological grounds (count)
Definition
The number of sites whose filed suitability determination is withheld on ecological grounds and whose safeguard review is approved. A positive result of the programme: intact indigenous grassland, wetland or riparian ground left unplanted.
purpose
To make avoided harm visible and countable, so that a site left unplanted for good reason is reported as a success rather than as underperformance.
rationale
Secunda and the Highveld sites lie in a naturally treeless biome; a greening programme that cannot report a decision not to plant will be pushed to plant where it should not.
Classification
- Result level: Output
- Outcome domains: Biodiversity and ecosystem integrity
- Unit of observation: Site
- Activity types: Site assessment
- Approval status: Approved
- Unit of measure:
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Collections
- 2026 core indicator set: The fifteen indicators a 2026 project under the standard reports: the site preconditions and assessments, delivery and planting, education and care, and the survival family to T2. Every member is approved and served by an approved methodology whose records exist in the standard; the monthly and final reports are queries over approved claims at these indicators. Module indicators sit outside it.
- Biodiversity and ecosystem integrity module: Optional: the safeguard as a rate, what trees died of, mulch cover and stem growth, from the assessment and the visits under NCGS-M007, NCGS-M001 and NCGS-M002. For projects whose objective is ecological appropriateness and the health of what was planted.
Methodologies that serve it
Where it can be claimed, by stratum and horizon: the claims table.