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CEPF SMALL GRANT FINAL PROJECT COMPLETION REPORT
I. BASIC DATA
Organization Legal Name: Dr. Shirley Pierce Cowling
Project Title (as stated in the grant agreement):
Co-authorship of a Book Entitled: East of
the Cape - Conserving Eden
Implementation Partners for This Project: N.A.
Project Dates (as stated in the grant agreement):
January 1, 2005 – December 31, 2005
Date of Report (month/year): Feb 2006
II. OPENING REMARKS
Provide any opening remarks that may assist in the review of this report.
This project has funded the co-authorship, with Prof Richard Cowling,
of a book on the biologically-rich south-eastern region of South Africa.
It is a companion volume to the two very successful publications
Fynbos: South Africa’s Unique Floral Kingdom and Namaqualand: A
Succulent Desert. A draft of the entire book has been written and is
presently undergoing final edits as well as reviewer input. It comprises
six chapters, each of 8000 – 9000 words in length. David Rogers, a
well-known photographer will be providing the bulk of the photos but
many will be sourced elsewhere. We are aiming for publication towards
the end of this year.
Its contents are as follows, with more detail provided for Chapter 6 which is about
conservation:
CONTENTS
Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Discovering Eden
Introduces Eden – its geography, natural history and its
people, from the birth of humankind to the start of the Industrial Age in South Africa
Chapter 2. Into the thick of it
Describes the plants, animals and habitats of Eden’s
endemic biome – subtropical thicket – the natural history focus of this book.
Chapter 3. Thicket at work Explains how the various plant types cope with the thicket’s
physical and biological environment; the key role played by animals (both large, such as
elephants and rhino, and small, such as dung beetles), and how thicket ecosystems work.
Chapter 4. Evolution of Eden Tells the story of the evolution of Eden’s physical and
biological features, describing the forces that have shaped its scenery, climate, and plant
and animal life.
Chapter 5. The human footprint Documents human impacts on Eden’s natural
environment since the 1860s with the rise of the Industrial Age in South Africa, and how,
despite this abuse, some 72 per cent of the land remains in an ecologically healthy state.
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