ac949963-32e6-4714-bfca-4283986f0f36 SANBI The Metadata Manager +27 21 799 8738 Kirstenbosch Research Centre Cape Town Claremont 7735 South Africa bgishelp@sanbi.org.za 2017-09-13T14:58:35 SANS 1878 FGDC-STD-001-1998 WGS 1984 CapeNature Stewardship Sites 2015 (Stewardship_sites_2015_sign_decl_gw.shp) 2015 1.0 CapeNature Stewardship Sites - Sites signed up or declared, including categories, such as Contract Nature Reserves, Biodiversity Agreements, Protected Environments & Voluntary Conservation Areas. The definitions for the statuses are as follows; Designated - refers to all Nature Reserves (including Contract Nature Reserves) or Protected Environments declared by the Minister or MEC, and subsequently Gazetted (Notice Number provided in Master Stewardship Register). Biodiversity Agreements and Voluntary Conservation Areas do not fall under the NEM: Protected Areas Act and therefore do not get declared. Signed - means a Protected Area Management Agreement has been signed for the Nature Reserve or Protected Environment but it has not been declared yet. Pending - means sites where negotiation have begun but no Agreement has been signed yet - but we don’t put these on the distributable Stewardship layer. In negotiation - sites where negotiation has started and no agreement reached yet. Withdrawn - sites were withdrawn as a possible stewardship site. This means sites that were anywhere between negotiations and signed, but not designated yet. To conserve private conservation worthy land by signed contracts and agreements. CapeNature The GIS Officer 079 879 419 PO Box 1981, Somerset West Western Cape 7129 South Africa kpurnell@capenature.co.za Stewardship Sites Protected Areas South Africa Western Cape - 50000 environment 2016-01-01 18 23.5 -34.7 -31 SANBI bgishelp@sanbi.org.za ZIP 1 http://bgismaps.sanbi.org/server/rest/services/BGIS_Projects/2015StewardshipSites/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/344 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related A list of spatial data-sets are available at this URL. BGIS Spatial Datasets Methodology: The original data was extracted from the various regions stewardship databases. Since the database is not in working order, updated shapefiles are sent annually to Kerry Purnell from the various regions and then onto SS. These updates are added to the latest known update. The updates for 2014 were done on the base layers as last updated by Genevieve Pence in August 2013. These layers were; (i) Master Stewardship Register_Q4 Jan 2013.xlsx, (ii) StewardshipAll_pluspending_Capenature_16aug2013_utm.xlsx, and (iii) StewardshipAll_pluspending_CapeNature_16Aug2013_utm.shp. The updates to the Stewardship Sites layer were received from Kerry Purnell on the 3rd of October 2014. The updated spreadsheet was received on the 10th of October 2014. All the site boundaries were then checked and corrected against the cadastre boundaries. Once finalised, the shapefile was again unproject from UTM to decimal degrees for filing. From this final layer, only the sites with a declaration status of signed and declared were extracted.