CapeNature Stewardship Sites – Sites signed up or declared, including categories, such as Contract Nature Reserves, Biodiversity Agreements, Biodiversity Agreement Servitudes, Reactive sites, Protected Environments & Voluntary Conservation Areas. The definitions for the statuses are as follows; Designated - refers to all Nature Reserves (including Contract Nature Reserves) or Protected Environments declared by the Minister or MEC, and subsequently Gazetted (Notice Number provided in Master Stewardship Register). Biodiversity Agreements and Voluntary Conservation Areas do not fall under the NEM: Protected Areas Act and therefore do not get declared. Signed - means a Protected Area Management Agreement has been signed for the Nature Reserve or Protected Environment but it has not been declared yet. Registered – applicable to conservation agreement - servitudes, which doesn’t go through the normal process for signing and designation.

All recorded fires on CapeNature managed property

CapeNature Stewardship Sites – Sites signed up or declared, including categories, such as Contract Nature Reserves, Biodiversity Agreements, Biodiversity Agreement Servitudes, Reactive sites, Protected Environments & Voluntary Conservation Areas. The definitions for the statuses are as follows; Designated - refers to all Nature Reserves (including Contract Nature Reserves) or Protected Environments declared by the Minister or MEC, and subsequently Gazetted (Notice Number provided in Master Stewardship Register). Biodiversity Agreements and Voluntary Conservation Areas do not fall under the NEM: Protected Areas Act and therefore do not get declared. Signed - means a Protected Area Management Agreement has been signed for the Nature Reserve or Protected Environment but it has not been declared yet. Registered – applicable to conservation agreement - servitudes, which doesn’t go through the normal process for signing and designation.

CapeNature Stewardship Sites – Sites signed up or declared, including categories, such as Contract Nature Reserves, Biodiversity Agreements, Biodiversity Agreement Servitudes, Reactive sites, Protected Environments & Voluntary Conservation Areas. The definitions for the statuses are as follows; Designated - refers to all Nature Reserves (including Contract Nature Reserves) or Protected Environments declared by the Minister or MEC, and subsequently Gazetted (Notice Number provided in Master Stewardship Register). Biodiversity Agreements and Voluntary Conservation Areas do not fall under the NEM: Protected Areas Act and therefore do not get declared. Signed - means a Protected Area Management Agreement has been signed for the Nature Reserve or Protected Environment but it has not been declared yet. Registered – applicable to conservation agreement - servitudes, which doesn’t go through the normal process for signing and designation.

Protected Areas in the Core Planning domain of West Coast District Management Areas and Matzikama North of Olifants and Wiedou Rivers.

The data represent all the areas with no remaining natural vegetation which have not been recognized as Critical Biodiversity Areas (aquatic and terrestrial), Ecological Support Areas (critical and other) or National Protected Areas. These areas are considered irreversibly transformed as rehabilitation would be unfeasible. Below are the stages that were followed to come up with this dataset: • Merge the CBA, CESA, OESA and National Protected Areas • Do a vector to raster conversion on the merged file - setting the spatial resolution to 10 m • Reclass the landcover summary map by combining the production and transformed into one class and masking out the natural, near natural and degraded landcover classes. • Define the projection for the datasets • Resample/ Layerstack the two datasets • Using the Map Algebra/ Map Calculator subtract the merged file from the reclassed landcover summary • Reclass the Resultant Image (No Natural Remaining Areas)

Wetlands, functional wetland types, wetland groupings and corresponding SA veg types for the priority and non-priority area of the Matzikama Local Municipality.

Mountain Catchment Areas for the Witzenberg Municipality

Identified ‘Critical Biodiversity Areas’(CBAs) and ‘Ecological Support Areas’ (ESAs) from the Western Cape Biodiversity Framework (Kirkwood et al., 2010), updated in 2014 (Pence) to more accurately reflect conditions relevant to land-use decision making. The Western Cape Biodiversity Framework (WCBF) provides an edge-matched, wall-to-wall coverage of all standard CBA categories to inform land-use decision making. Areas have either been formally assessed as part of a recognised Systematic Biodiversity Plan or only have ‘known’ CBA and ESA features indicated. Matzikama Municipality has been divided into two on the basis of where fine scale planning was and was not done. Please see CBA_and_ESA_DMA01.shp for the remainder of Matzikama CBAs and ESAs