Conservation Status of each vegetation type for the Gouritz Inititive area. The conservation status of each of the vegetation types within the GI Domain was calculated using the vegetation targets set within C.A.P.E. and SKEP. The method for calculating Conservtion targets developed in STEP was used. Conservation status is the classification of vegetation types into four groups, depending on how much land within the type is still untransformed, and how much of the original extent is required to meet targets. It has nothing to do with the percentage of the vegetation type that is currently protected.

The SKEP expert maps (Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Insect, Invertebrates, Mammals, Plants, Reptiles) were mapped by experts on 1:250 000 topocadastral maps and digitized by Benis Egoh (IPC).

South African estuaries

GCBC Geographic Priorities - To identify areas of importance for ecological processes within the GCBC domain.

Soil transition areas

Sand movement corridors within the SKEP planning domain

STEP Transformation

SKEP Expert Maps (Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Insect, Invertebrates, Mammals, Plants, Reptiles)

SKEP Expert Maps (Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Insect, Invertebrates, Mammals, Plants, Reptiles). The SKEP expert maps (Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Insect, Invertebrates, Mammals, Plants, Reptiles) were mapped by experts on 1:250 000 topocadastral maps and digitized by Benis Egoh (IPC).

Ecosystem status of vegetation types was derived from the new vegetation map of South Africa (see Mucina, L and Rutherford, M.C. 2004).