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

This was derived from the grid version of the KZN 2008 Land-cover Version 1 as produced by GeoTerraImage. This is a binary ArcView grid indicating areas transformed and untransformed (natural). The categories selected for transformed/untransformed are listed in the “How the 2008 V1 LC was reclassified” text file.

CBA areas considered critical for meeting biodiversity targets and thresholds, and which are required to ensure the persistence of viable populations of species and the functionality of ecosystems.

KZN community Conservation areas (2016). The boundaries captured in this file represent the boundaries of the CCAs according to the best available data to date. This coverage has both the proclaimed and unknown proclamation status areas.

ESAs are required to support and sustain the ecological functioning of Critical Biodiversity Areas (CBAs).

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.

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.

CBA areas considered critical for meeting biodiversity targets and thresholds, and which are required to ensure the persistence of viable populations of species and the functionality of ecosystems.

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

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.