299 estuarine systems along the South African coastline were mapped. For each the floodplain (estuarine functional zone) areas were digitized using Spot 5 imagery (2008) and Google Earth. It also shows the areas of the floodplains in hectares and meters as well as the estuary names and ID’s as they occur along the coastline.

Identified Critical Biodiversity Areas and Ecological Support Areas in the Municipalities adjacent to the Addo Elephant National Park (namely Blue Crane Route, Ndlambe, Ikwezi and Sundays River); basis of categorization is included in this layer to help inform decision makers

Vegetation map indicating the extent of original (pre-transformation) vegetation types in the following municipalities: Drakenstein, Cape Agulhas Swartland, De Hoop, Overstrand, Swellendam and Theewaterskloof.

This GIS layer shows the outlines of the Strategic Water Source Areas for groundwater (SWSA-gw) that have been delineated as part of a Water Research Commission (WRC) project (K5/2431). Groundwater Strategic Water Source Areas (SWSAs) are areas which combine areas with high groundwater availability as well as where this groundwater forms a nationally important resource. The sub-national Water Source Areas (WSAs) are not nationally strategic as defined in the report but were included to provide a complete coverage. Dataset citation: Le Maitre, D.C., Seyler, H., Holland, M., Smith-Adao, L.B., Nel, J.L., Maherry, A. and Witthüser. K 2018. Strategic Water Source Areas for groundwater (Vector data). One of the outputs of the Identification, Delineation and Importance of the Strategic Water Source Areas of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland for Surface Water and Groundwater, WRC Report No TT 754/1/18, Water Research Commission, Pretoria, South Africa.

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

Protected areas in the SKEP planning domain

Baviaanskloof Mega-Reserve Protected Areas. This layer shows the protected areas within the Baviaanskloof Mega-Reserve planning domain and surrounding areas. It includes National Parks, Provincial and Municipal nature reserves, publicly owned land which has been declared as reserves and privately owned land which is managed for conservation (i.e. conservancies).

Mining and Biodiversity Guidelines: Biodiversity priority areas sensitive to the impacts of mining categorized into four categories

This layer maps the location of wetlands rehabilitated within the working for wetlands programme. THE WORKING for WETLANDS PROGRAMME is a partnership approach to the rehabilitation, protection and sustainable use of wetlands. The delineations were based largely on desktop delineations prepared by the planning teams for rehab. Some of the wetlands were mapped on Google Earth and other field delineated by EAP`s and provincial coordinators. The data is captured in vector format. Wetland boundaries collated from desktop mapping done by wetland specialists using aerial imagery of various resolutions, 10m interval contour data and background knowledge from their site visits for the purpose of wetland assessments over the 4 years of planning. The attribute data was collected from rehabilitation plans document and checked and confirmed by the provincial coordinators. Note: This GIS layer codes: • Working for Wetlands rehabilitated wetlands projects • The different interventions types are recorded on a separate shapefile

Land Cover of KwaZulu-Natal - 2008 Version 1 (December 2010)