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Withdrawn - sites were withdrawn as a possible stewardship site.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.