SANBI Metadata
Offshore Marine Protected Areas 2011 (Focus_areas_for_offshore_protection.shp)
This GIS layer represents the polygon layer for focus areas for offshore protection. The focus areas for offshore protection are geographic areas with high biodiversity priorities and are identified through systematic planning. They were developed to address the inshore bias in South Africa’s protected area system, support ecosystem based management and spatial planning the offshore environment as well as to identify potential network of offshore MPAs. Ten focus areas for offshore protection were identified.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Edition
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1.0
- Purpose
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The layer was prepared to identify focus areas for offshore spatial management to meet a range of different biodiversity and fishery management objectives. These areas will address the inshore bias of protected area system, support ecosystem based management and spatial planning the offshore environment.
- Status
- On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Theme
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Marine
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Protected Areas
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- Place
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South Africa
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- Keywords
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- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- otherRestictions
- Other constraints
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- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 2016-01-01
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- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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A list of services published are available at this URL.
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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BGIS Map Services
- OnLine resource
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A list of spatial data-sets are available at this URL.
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related
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BGIS Spatial Datasets
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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The study area extended from the 30 m depth contour to the current 200 nm limit of the EEZ of South Africa. Systematic biodiversity planning process was conduct to identify the areas with planning step undertaken.
Available documents:
Sink KJ, Attwood CG, Lombard AT, Grantham H, Leslie R, Samaai T, Kerwath S, Majiedt P, Fairweather T, Hutchings L, vander Lingen C, Atkinson LJ, Wilkinson S, Holness S, Wolf T. 2011. Spatial planning to identify focus areas for offshore biodiversity protection in South Africa. Final Report for the Offshore Marine Protected Area Project. Cape Town: South African National Biodiversity Institute.
- File identifier
- d52d3f39-7827-4adf-850e-56cc42d12bd9 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2018-01-17T12:51:44
- Metadata standard name
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SANS 1878
- Metadata standard version
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FGDC-STD-001-1998
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