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Table 14. Overstrand Local Municipality Bioregional Plan, taken from the Spatial Development Framework (SDF) 2009.
Component Description Policies
Conservation I
Represents areas of highest conservation
status. This includes unique areas, areas
which are irreplaceable in terms of
achieving national conservation
objectives, and/or areas which provide
valuable ecosystem services in terms of,
particularly, maintaining water production
and/or quality, protecting soils, regulating
floods, buffering coastal areas, etc. Land is
in Public ownership.
Conservation II Represents areas of the highest
conservation status. Includes unique
areas, relatively large areas, clustered
and/or discrete areas which are
irreplaceable in terms of achieving
national biodiversity conservation
objectives, and/or areas which provide
valuable ecosystem services in terms of,
particularly, maintaining water production
and/or quality, protecting soils, regulating
floods, buffering coastal areas, etc. Land is
in Public ownership.
1. Protect transformation of areas of Critically Endangered or Endangered natural vegetation.
2. Protect the biodiversity and ecosystem functioning of the Conservation Area.
3. Protect the distinctive landscape character of the area.
4. Promote sound management of natural resources.
5. Permit use of natural resources if and only if such use would be sustainable and would not jeopardise biodiversity
conservation.
6. Safeguard areas identified as important for key ecological and evolutionary processes.
7. Eradicate alien invasive species.
8. Promote the restoration of degraded and disturbed areas.
9. Promote awareness of the significance and uniqueness of natural vegetation and ecosystems of the area amongst
the local landowners and communities, visitors and tourists.
1. Prohibit transformation of areas of Critically Endangered or Endangered natural vegetation.
2. Protect the biodiversity and ecosystem functioning through sound management and eradication of alien invasive
plants.
3. Protect the distinctive landscape character of the area.
4. Promote sound management of natural resources.
5. Permit use of natural resources if and only if such use would be sustainable and would not jeopardise biodiversity
conservation.
6. Safeguard areas identified as important for key ecological and evolutionary processes.
7. Eradicate alien invasive species.
8. Prohibit subdivision of agricultural land.
9. Promote rehabilitation of degraded or disturbed areas.
10. Promote awareness of the significance and uniqueness of natural vegetation and ecosystems of the area amongst
the local landowners and communities, visitors and tourists.
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