# The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research says urgent action is needed to avoid, reduce and reverse land degradation in South Africa. According to the National biodiversity assessment conducted by the South African National Biodiversity Institute, about 50-percent of the country’s ecosystems are categorised as threatened. Threatened ecosystem types are concentrated in the Fynbos biome of the Western Cape and Eastern Cape, and KwaZulu-Natal’s Indian Ocean Coastal Belt. CSIR’s Phumza Ntshotsho says ecological restoration and ecosystem-based adaptation are urgently needed to address biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation.
CSIR says urgent action needed to reverse the phenomenon of degraded ecosystems