Landcover map for Little Karoo Planning Domain defined by Vlok et al. 2005. Based on Thompson et al. 2005 and Kirkwood 2010

Aquatic Critical Biodiversity Areas for the Eastern Cape

This layer provides a general synopsis of why an area or polygon received its specific Critical Biodiversity Area classification, by listing the specific biodiversity informant involved. Also provided are the transformation state and management recommendation. It is anticipated that this layer would mainly be of interest to technical or specialist users

Areas which are currently under cultivation in the Klein Karoo as derived from Thompson (2005) This data needs to be used together with the shapefiles; ‘Ostrich_farming.shp’ and ‘Ostrich_farming_threat_ecosyst.shp’, to determine areas where ostrich farming should be avoided.

This GIS layer represents the polygon layer for Strategic Water Source Areas (SWSAs) of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. Strategic Water Source Areas are areas that supply a disproportionate amount of mean annual runoff to a geographical region of interest. National Strategic Water Source Areas were derived by grouping mean annual runoff in MAR_SWSA (also in BGIS) into categories representing 10, 30, 50, 75, 90 and 100% of South Africa’s water supply. Those areas supplying = 50% (which were represented by grid cells with = 135 mm/year) were taken to represent national Strategic Water Source Areas and converted to this polygon coverage. The mean annual runoff category, depicting grid cells that contribute > 50, 30 or 10% of the mean annual runoff are provided as attributes, as well as the name of the Strategic Water Source Area.

Protected areas for the Hessequa Municipality

All recorded fires on CapeNature managed property

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

Identified Critical Biodiversity Areas and Ecological Support Areas in the CORE Planning Domain of WCDMA and northern Matzikama LM

Landscapes of high topographic variability important for climate change adaptation.