Identification under section 21 of activities which may have a substantial detrimental effect on the environment.

With this Notice, the Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism identifies, under section 21 of the Environment Conservation Act, 1989, the activities which may have a substantial detrimental effect on the environment. Such activities are listed in Schedule 1.
Activities include: change in use of agricultural land, disturbances to the flow of water in a river bed, intensive livestock breeding, the release of any organism outside its natural area of distribution that is to be used for biological pest control and the genetic modification of any organism, the disposal of waste and the reclamation of land, including wetlands, below the high-water mark of the sea, and in inland waters.