The data represent all the areas with no remaining natural vegetation which have not been recognized as Critical Biodiversity Areas (aquatic and terrestrial), Ecological Support Areas (critical and other) or National Protected Areas. These areas are considered irreversibly transformed as rehabilitation would be unfeasible.

Below are the stages that were followed to come up with this dataset:

• Merge the CBA, CESA, OESA and National Protected Areas

• Do a vector to raster conversion on the merged file - setting the spatial resolution to 10 m

• Reclass the landcover summary map by combining the production and transformed into one class and masking out the natural, near natural and degraded landcover classes.

• Define the projection for the datasets

• Resample/ Layerstack the two datasets

• Using the Map Algebra/ Map Calculator subtract the merged file from the

reclassed landcover summary

• Reclass the Resultant Image (No Natural Remaining Areas)