48ec5152-33d4-4671-899a-2684490a8235 SANBI The Metadata Manager +27 21 799 8738 Kirstenbosch Research Centre Cape Town Claremont 7735 South Africa bgishelp@sanbi.org.za 2018-01-17T11:57:38 SANS 1878 FGDC-STD-001-1998 WGS 1984 WCBF2014 Protected areas for the Witzenberg Municipality (PA_Witzenberg.shp) 2014 Protected areas for the Witzenberg Municipality Created as part of WCBF deliverable for end of 2013/14 financial year Therese Forsyth CapeNature The GIS Officer 021 866 8000 PGWC Shared Services Centre, corner Bosduif and Volstruis Streets Cape Town 7766 South Africa lgibson@capenature.co.za Protected Areas Witzenberg South Africa Western Cape - 50000 environment 2016-01-01 18.81316991873974 20.683082068899516 -33.246955540633365 -32.559558529135046 SANBI bgishelp@sanbi.org.za ZIP 1 http://bgismaps.sanbi.org/server/rest/services/BGIS_Projects/2014WCBF/2014WCBF_Witzenberg/MapServer WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link A list of services published are available at this URL. BGIS Map Services http://bgis.sanbi.org/SpatialDataset/Detail/564 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related A list of spatial data-sets are available at this URL. BGIS Spatial Datasets Methodology: This layer was created by unioning other protected layers in this order: National Parks, Provincial Reserves, Marine Reserves, Local Authority Reserves, Mountain Catchment Areas, World Heritage Sites, Stewardship sites. Protected areas were ranked as follows: Wilderness Areas = 1 SAN Park = 2 Provincial Reserve = 3 State Forest = 4 Marine Protected Area – National = 5 Marine Protected Area – Provincial = 6 Island Reserve = 7 World Heritage Site = 8 Contract Nature Reserve = 9 Local Authority Reserve = 10 Mountain Catchment Area = 11 Biodiversity Agreement = 12 Voluntary Conservation Agreement = 13. Where there was overlap, the highest rank generally took precedence. Except that: All World Heritage Sites overlapped with another type of protected area so World Heritage Sites were therefore not included as a category. Mountain Catchment Areas also had a substantial degree of overlap with other protected areas and were subsequently removed from the layer, to be served separately. Slivers adjacent to protected areas were dealt with as follows: all harbours were deleted. Slivers of MPA where the difference was obviously a scale mismatch, the dataset with smallest scale (highest resolution) was used as a guide. Biodiversity agreements and voluntary conservation agreements are assumed to be mapped more accurately so when in doubt, these boundaries were used. A new field called Type was created and to populate it based on rank, the following options were possible: Wilderness area, State Forest Reserve, Provincial Reserve, Provincial MPA, National Park, National MPA, Local Authority Reserve, Island Reserve, Contract Nature Reserve, Biodiversity agreement. A new field called PAcategory was added describing the status of the protected area – Formal A= Wilderness area, State Forest Reserve, Provincial Reserve, Provincial MPA, National Park, National MPA, Island Reserve, Contract Nature Reserve, Formal B = Local Authority Reserve Informal = Biodiversity Agreements A class detailing whether the protected area is terrestrial or marine was added and the area in ha (WGS84 UTM Zone 34S) for each polygon was calculated. The data was clipped using the shapefile designated for municipalities and districts for the WCBF: (2_Geographic\Social_and_Cultural_Regions\Administrative\Municipalities_WesternCape\Local_Municipalities_2011.shp) with the Witzenberg shape being highlighted thus only the Witzenberg data is saved in this shapefile. The area calculations were updated after clipping. Available documentation: This data accompanies the following report: Pence, Genevieve Q.K. 2014. Western Cape Biodiversity Framework 2014 Status Update: Critical Biodiversity Areas of the Western Cape. Unpublished CapeNature project report. Cape Town, South Africa.