Seed Sources

Lack of enough native seed stock has previously hampered large scale rehabilitation on mines. DNS has systematically addressed this issue through a range of strategies:

• building relationships with landholders, including mining companies, to gain access to stands of vegetation suitable for harvest.
• large investments in DNS harvesting capacity and associated storage capacity.
• development of relationships with independent seed harvest operators allowing large investment in seed stock procurement.
• purchase by DNS of properties with excellent native seed resources.
• establishment of both broadscale (rainfed) and intensive (irrigated) seed production areas (SPAs) on our own properties.

The gallery below highlights some of these seed sources.