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

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

Sand movement corridors within the SKEP planning domain

Landscapes of high topographic variability important for climate change adaptation.

This GIS layer represents the polygon layer for focus areas for offshore protection. The focus areas for offshore protection are geographic areas with high biodiversity priorities and are identified through systematic planning. They were developed to address the inshore bias in South Africa’s protected area system, support ecosystem based management and spatial planning the offshore environment as well as to identify potential network of offshore MPAs. Ten focus areas for offshore protection were identified.

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.

Areas of biome stability in the face of climate change, under a range of climate scenarios, according to niche modelling results using statistically downscaled future climate scenarios only.

Polygons of formal protected areas in South Africa

A flammability index map showing the potential reoccurrence of fire in untransformed examples of the 56 habitat types of the Little Karoo