The custodians of the world's most valuable wetland areas have sent another reminder to South Africa to submit a long-overdue report about the long-standing threats facing the Ndumo Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal.

The custodians of the world's most valuable wetland areas have sent another reminder to South Africa to submit a long-overdue report about the long-standing threats facing the Ndumo Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal.

In a report published ahead of the 15th meeting of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in Zimbabwe next month, the treaty secretariat has once again requested a detailed report on the future of the 10,000-hectare Ndumo reserve, which lies on the border between northern KZN and Mozambique.

Noting that a status report on Ndumo has been outstanding for more than six years, the secretariat has now urged South Africa to give "high priority" to compiling and submitting this report.

The international convention, focused on the conservation and sustainable use of globally important wetlands - such as the Pantanal in South America, the Okavango Delta in Botswana or The Sudd in South Sudan - is named after an Iranian city where the global wetlands convention was signed in 1971.

Ndumo is one of 31 sites in South Africa recognised for their global importance in wetland conservation, but it was occupied by subsistence farmers just before the 2009 election season, when they were promised initial access to a small 20ha...