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

These style files are provided to ease the display of the 2023 Marine Ecosystem Map across multiple GIS software platforms, including QGIS (.qml), ArcMap (.lyr) and ArcGIS Pro (.lyrx). Different style files display either the benthic and bentho-pelagic layer, or the pelagic layer. We provide these style files to try and help users to display the maps. They come with no guarantee of working across various software installation versions.

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

West Coast Biosphere Reserve

We used the priority scores derived from species-, habitat-, and process-level analyses to identify overall priority areas. We decided to define priority areas as areas considerably important for at least one aspect (species, habitat or processes). Priority scores ranges from 0 to 100. The three scores were summed and a cut-off was set of 60 to identify areas. Areas scoring between 50 and 60 for only one aspect were not considered. We used the overall priority score map to delineate the priority area boundaries. Note: Data on the individual scores (i.e. for species, habitat and processes) are available on request.

Protected areas for the Breedevalley Municipality

Mining and Biodiversity Guidelines: Biodiversity priority areas sensitive to the impacts of mining categorized into four categories

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

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.

Represents land cover for the Mosselbay Local Municipality. Land cover is categorized into 6 land cover types: Natural, Near Natural, Degraded, Cultivated and Transformed