Certain issues require urgent attention and
action. This list of issues includes (but is by no
means limited to):
-
Poverty, particularly in rural areas
of the province;
-
Employment, particularly the high use of
child labour
in the province;
-
Collection of information on the health
impacts
of air quality;
-
Conservation and protection of certain
species of flora and fauna in the province that are
in danger of becoming extinct
and formal protection of the centres of endemism
within the province;
-
Conservation of areas of high intrinsic biodiversity importance
in the province;
-
Management of medicinal plant use and
harvesting
from the wild;
-
Management of the disposal of hazardous
waste in Mpumalanga and provision of landfill
airspace in the near future, particularly in
the Lowveld
and escarpment region;
-
Maintenance of a balance between
industrial and economic growth in the province and growth of the
provincial tourism industry;
-
Protection of land in areas where
desertification is
a high risk;
-
Available water resources per capita in
the Usutu and Upper Vaal water management area (WMAs) are below
stressed and chronic thresholds
indicating water stress;
-
Provision of adequate financial and human
resources to ensure good environmental management and governance
in the province;
-
Establishment of an environmental
management system for small and
medium enterprises; and
-
Establishment of capacity to deal with
the environment at local government
level within Mpumalanga.
