West Coast Biosphere Reserve

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

GCBC River Corridors

Sub-quaternary catchments for the Cederberg Municipality.

River conservation status from NSBA with additional fresh water focal areas - river lengths from Mao Amis CFR River Conservation Plan added

Benthic and Coastal Ecosystem Protection Levels. As per National Biodiversity Assessment Benthic and coastal Habitats with an extra field "PALevel" and refer to tech doc for derivation.

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

National Biodiversity Assessment (NBA) benthic and coastal habitat classifications

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

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)