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5. NATURAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT (NRD)
As the Municipality strives for Durban to be the most caring and liveable City by 2030, the NRD will continue to introduce innovative ways of not only keeping the City beautiful, but beneficial to the economy as well.
One of the most important services provided by the Municipality in the field of recreation and environmental protection is the development and maintenance of a park and open space system. Many of these open spaces fall within D’MOSS, which is a planned system that ecologically links areas of open space, including nine parks, river valleys and coastal land. Much of this open space is administered and maintained by NRD.
In addition to the establishment, maintenance and administration of this extensive network of recreational open space, the department also cares for over 700 000 street trees, maintains some four million m2 of verge in the Municipality and enforces clearance of overgrowth on undeveloped land in private ownership.
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