Little Karoo Biodiversity Assessment - Biodiversity GIS - SANBI

5.4 Description of CBA’s for the Kannaland Municipality,Oudtshoorn Municipality and Eden District ManagementAreaTable 9. Biodiversity criteria used to define Critical Biodiversity Areas (CBAs) in the Kannaland,Oudtshoorn Municipalities and DMA04 (Figure 20).CategoryTerrestrialFeaturesAquaticfeaturesClimatechange andconnectivityNameHabitat mapSpecial speciesNationally ListedthreatenedecosystemsLeslie Hill ExpertareasQuartz patchesForestHigh priority riverreachesHigh prioritycatchmentsSensitivewetlandsRipariancorridorsHigh priorityunfragmentedlandscapesDescription ofbiodiversity featuresused to define CBAcategoryBase habitat map of235 terrestrial habitatsmapped by Vlok et al.(2005).CR EN and VU plantlocations from theCREW and DKdatasets buffered by250mRemaining extent ofEN and VU vegetationtypes listed underNEMBA as threatened.Identified expertfeatures from theSucculent Karooassessmentundertaken for theLeslie Hill TrustQuartz patches fromDK datasetForest habitat from DKdatasetIdentified high priorityriver catchments fromthe NFEPA assessment(Nel et al. In prep)Identified high priorityriver reaches from theNFEPA assessment (Nelet al. In prep)Sensitive wetlandsfrom the Cape Natureassessment andNFEPAVariable widthbuffered corridorsalong major rivers inthe Little Karoo.High priorityunfragmented areasidentified within theNPAES conservationassessment. The studyidentified the largest,most intact areas forShp File NameLK_Region_veg_Ecostatus.shpCombined_rares_1.shpThreatened_veg_clipped_to_natural.shpLeslie_Hill_expert_areas_1.shpQuartz _1.shpForest_1.shpRivers_1.shpCatch_1.shpWetlands_notclipped_1.shpAll_Riparian_corridors_1.shpHigh_priority_unfragmented_landscapes_1.shpKannaland, Oudtshoorn and DMA04 Biodiversity Assessment – Final Report August 2010 27