The state protected areas in KZN are managed by various authorities eg Msinsi, DWA, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife and DAFF. This dataset lists the proclaimed areas that are not managed by Ezemvelo. Please note these are not Ezemvelo managed protected areas and therefore the boundaries may differ from that developed by the respective management authority.

The 2005 KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Land-Cover dataset is a geographically combined output of the previously released 2005 KZN Coastal Land-Cover dataset (see project report: KZN Coastal Land-Cover Mapping, 2006), and the follow-on KZN Interior Land-Cover dataset. The two land-cover datasets have been derived from equivalent SPOT2 & SPOT4 20 m imagery captured in 2005-06 and contain the same land-cover information classes and legend format.

Freshwater Systematic Conservation Plan 2007. This is the freshwater planning unit surface for the 2007 Freshwater Systematic Conservation Plan (FSCP) run by Dr Nick Riversmore in 2007 using MARXAN. Within the attribute table, the field {status} highlights the status of the planning units relative to their conservation importance.

Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife proclaimed protected areas as of 2015. The boundaries captured in this file represent the legal, proclaimed boundaries and not the managed or fenced boundaries.

Landscape Corridors for the 2016 Biodiversity Sector Plans: Identifying corridors in KZN, creating linkages in a fragmented landscape

DAFF Managed Forest Wilderness Area Boundary - DEA Protected Area Database Extract

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

Areas required for the persistence of specific species. Although these areas are frequently modified, a change in current land use, to anything other than rehabilitated land, would most likely result in a loss of that feature from the area identified.

To indicate marine areas of critical biodiversity as derived from the KwaZulu_Natal biodiversity plan

This was derived from the grid version of the KZN 2011 Land-cover Version 1 as produced by GeoTerraImage. This is a binary ArcView grid indicating areas transformed and untransformed (natural). The categories selected for modified/unmodified are listed in the “How the 2011 V1 LC was reclassified” text file.