Protected areas for the Bergrivier Municipality

Represents land cover for the Cederberg Local Municipality and two adjacent district municipality. Landcover is categorized into 6 land cover types: Natural, Near Natural, Degraded, Cultivated and Transformed.

Images show the projected suitability by eGAM models for maize (mz), under simulations in which plant response to elevated CO2 was assumed to be unenhanced (lowco2). The images are expressed as a fraction of 18 scenarios, where 0 means all scenarios show no suitability, and 1 means all scenarios show suitability.

Layer designating renosterveld conservation priority clusters and the area surrounding the natural vegetation up to 500m (a 500m buffer). The patches of remaining lowland habitat within priority clusters were identified by the Cape Lowlands Renosterveld Project as critical for conserving biodiversity pattern and ecological processes of lowland renosterveld.

Renosterveld Priorities Clusters for the Cape Agulhas, De Hoop Management Area, Overstrand, Drakenstein Municipality, Swartland, Swellendam and Theewaterskloof Municipalities. Layer designating renosterveld conservation priority clusters and the area surrounding the natural vegetation up to 500m (a 500m buffer). The patches of remaining lowland habitat within priority clusters were identified by the Cape Lowlands Renosterveld Project as critical for conserving biodiversity pattern and ecological processes of lowland renosterveld.

Known localities of Red Data Book species and localized endemics with limited distributions were depicted spatially. Species with broad distributions were not mapped, as these would be conserved incidentally via the achievement of targets for vegetation types. The classes of species mapped included plants, birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians.

Special Habitats layer for the Cape Agulhas, De Hoop Management Area, Overstrand, Drakenstein Municipality, Swartland, Swellendam and Theewaterskloof Municipalities.

Identified ‘Critical Biodiversity Areas’(CBAs) and ‘Ecological Support Areas’ (ESAs) from the Western Cape Biodiversity Framework (Kirkwood et al., 2010), updated in 2014 (Pence) to more accurately reflect conditions relevant to land-use decision making. The Western Cape Biodiversity Framework (WCBF) provides an edge-matched, wall-to-wall coverage of all standard CBA categories to inform land-use decision making. Areas have either been formally assessed as part of a recognised Systematic Biodiversity Plan or only have ‘known’ CBA and ESA features indicated.

Wetlands, functional wetland types, wetland groupings and corresponding SA veg types for the priority area of the Hessequa Municipality.

The NBA2018 cumulative marine pressure dataset combines 31 marine pressure datasets (e.g. the location of 20 fishery activities, petroleum activities etc). Pressure data is a key input into assessing ecosystem condition.