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.

GCBC Conservation Status

This coverage represents an update of the vegetation map [kznveg05v210_wll] whose updates were completed on 4 September 2009. Several additions have been made which is represented in the Appendix 1 of the the KwaZulu – Natal Vegetation Type Description Document for Vegetation Map 2011. These additions were made based on data that was received in an effort to make the map more current and representative of KZN’s vegetation.

List of threatened terrestrial ecosystems