South African Ramsar wetland sites (polygons)

Peatlands mapped as having turned desiccated or have burnt

The National Wetlands Map III (NWM3) is a combination of NWM2 extracted from the National Land Cover 2000 dataset and the Waterbodies of the 1:50 000 of topomaps from the Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping (CDSM). These two datasets were further categorized into natural waterbodies, artificial waterbodies, and unclassified waterbodies.

South African Ramsar wetland sites (centroids)

This data set is part of the National Wetland Map 2 (NWM2). Data from the National Wetlands Map 1 was combined with the 1:50 000 Farm dams features (DWAF 2004) to produce NWM2. National Wetland Map 2 that was divided into three GIS layers: wetland, natural waterbody and artificial waterbody.