The National Freshwater Ecosystem Priority Areas (NFEPA) project was a partnership and collaborative process led by the CSIR with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), Department of Water Affairs (DWA), the Water Research Commission (WRC), WWF South Africa, as well as expertise from South African National Parks (SANParks), the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB) and DEAT.
Link to National List of Threatened Ecosystems found on the BGIS website. (Dataset created by SANBI). From the BGIS website, users can download the shapefile associated with the national list of threatened ecosystems. They will also have access to the interactive map associated with the SANBI project.
ecosystem, gazette, national, spatial data
Libraries and online resources
NVD details on Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD)
Metadata about the National Vegetation Database of South Africa. The GIVD shows that South Africa is ninth as a country in the world in terms of non-overlapping relevés.
