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Sustainable Development
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Biodiversity, Society, & Economy
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Nature-based solutions
About us
Anchor Environmental is a group of companies offering ecological, social and economic assessment, research, monitoring and natural capital accounting to inform environmental management and policy. Our work straddles marine, estuarine, freshwater and terrestrial realms; and it addresses decision-making, planning, policy and strategy regarding sustainable development and the conservation and management of biodiversity, resources and ecosystem services in the context of a range of pressures including climate change. We are based in South Africa and Namibia, with our head office in Cape Town.
Some recent projects
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“State of the Bay” 2024 monitoring programme for Saldanha Bay & Langebaan Lagoon
Monitoring of important ecosystem indicators was initiated by the Saldanha Bay Water Quality Forum Trust in 1999 and cumulated in the “State of the Bay” (SOB) report series, that began in 2006, and…
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Uganda's physical and monetary Ecosystem Accounts
Anchor compiled Uganda's Physical and Monetary Ecosystem Services and Asset Accounts 1990-2015 on behalf of Uganda Bureau of Statistics. These summarise the physical and monetary value flows of…
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Debmarine Namibia Benthic Environmental Monitoring Programme
Debmarine Namibia conduct the world’s largest offshore diamond mining operation. Understanding the impacts of mining-related disturbance to the seabed is key in meeting the company's environmental…
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An assessment of the inshore trawl fishery of South Africa
South Africa’s 22 recognised commercial fisheries are largely managed independently, despite the resources they exploit, and the space they operate in, supporting multiple sectors. Increasingly, an…
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Valuing the transboundary wildlife landscapes of East Africa
Anchor was appointed to identify, delineate and value the wildlife and ecosystem services of four large-scale transboundary wildlife areas straddling six countries in East Africa. We delineated four…
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Towards a system of Payments-for-Ecosystem Services in Namibia’s Communal Conservancies
In this study, we used a combination of behavioural, experimental and environmental economics research methods, namely framed field experiments and contingent valuation, as well as social survey…
