Appendix 1: List of the Beneficiaries of Ecosystem Goods and Service Produced Within The

Appendix 1: List of the beneficiaries of ecosystem goods and service produced within the Succulent Karoo biome.

Beneficiaries / Examples of key benefits and ecosystem service links
Astronomers / Ecosystem service-based limitations on development resulting in skies unpolluted by light and anthropogenic emissions
Commercial farmers / Livestock production based on grazing of a diversity of habitats with differing temporal resource availability, water; sense of place and identity
Communal farmers / Grazing as above, water, fuelwood, plant food, bush-meat, medicinal plants, fibre; sense of place and identity (individual and social)
Farm workers / Water, fuel wood, bush-meat, medicinal plants; sense of place and identity (individual and social)
Horticulturalists & plant collectors / Seeds and plant materials for commercial development and to complete collections
Land owner with independent incomes / Undeveloped landscapes, isolation, tranquillity determined by limited ecosystem services
The local, national and international community / Carbon storage, oxygen production
Media producers / Biodiversity-related documentaries and human-land interaction based stories
Medical bio-prospectors / Medical potential of plant and animal species
Military strategists / Open, secure spaces
Miners / Cheap plant resources for restoration, water for mine operations and the workforce
Municipal managers / Regulated water flows and groundwater recharge; waste assimilation
National and international biodiversity fanatics / Spiritual and aesthetic benefits derived from the knowledge that this rich biodiversity exists and is safeguarded
Power utility waste disposal managers / Waste assimilation, isolation
Rural dwellers / Water, materials for arts and crafts; sense of place and identity (individual and social)
Students and academics / Biodiversity, ecological services and social-ecological interactions to study; intellectual satisfaction
Tourists / Untransformed landscapes – vast open space, wildflowers, wildlife, natural history, rural community life; water, shelter
Urban dwellers / Water, agricultural and natural goods for beneficiation and for arts and crafts; sense of place and identity (individual and social)

Appendix 2: A list of 41 ecosystem goods and service that were identified as being produced within the Succulent Karoo biome.

Ecosystem service
Amenable environment
Arts and crafts using natural resources e.g. ostrich feathers, wood, grass
Biodiversity spectaculars
Bush-meat
Carbon storage and sequestration
Cheap restoration (minimal investment in follow-up alien control)
Cheap restoration (propagule availability)
Cheap restoration (rapid autonomous vegetation recovery)
Cultural and spiritual places
Curious plants
Vast open space (wide horizons without signs of human habitation)
Drug potential of plant species
Ecological processes and social ecological processes to study for academic / scholarly gain
Fibre (including materials for fencing, weaving etc)
Flowers for tourists
Food (chickens to vegetables)
Fuel wood for cooking & heating
Game hunting
Game production – meat sales
Game viewing of diverse and abundant game
Industrial water (e.g. for washing tailings to separate fines from sand)
Isolation, solitude
Job creation – road verge maintenance
Landscape
Livestock production – grazing
Nature's symphony (silence, birdsong, running water)
Open landscapes, lack of development (lighting)
Open spaces
Oxygen production and regulation
Plant material collection e.g. seeds to establish commercial ventures
Plant parts products and food (e.g. Aloe leaves)
Protection of gardens
Quality water for domestic use
Recreation and tourism
Sand and dust control (as protection for men and machines)
Untransformed landscapes (vegetation structural diversity across the landscape)
Spectacular rock formations and landscapes
Utensils
Veld food & herbs
Veld medicines
Satisfaction and fulfilment from knowing that species are out there
Waste assimilation