Caroline Petersen, UNDP
Illegal Wildlife Trafficking
Chemicals
Fisheries
Climate Change
Land
Degradation
Biodiversity
Commodities
Sustainable
Cities
Food Security
Sustainable
Forest
Management
Forests
International
Waters
Integrated and
Programmatic
Approaches
“STAR”
Allocations in
Focal
Areas
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Programme 1: Protected Area Sustainability
Programme
9:
Human-Biodiversity
Interface
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Using spatial biodiversity data
to guide economic development in South Africa
Overallocated water resources
Mining in sensitive environs
Inadequate extension;
Degraded rangelands
Poverty,
environmental risks,
lack of services
Poor environmental
practise, regulation,
compliance
Peri-urban sprawl;
Diffuse settlement
patterns
Using systematic biodiversity planning to provide tools to help
guide economic development
South Africa has
developed composite
multi-scale maps
biodiversity priority
areas
• Vegetation, wetlands
and river types used
as proxies for
biodiversity
• Layers generated
from different
datasets used for
various purposes
Composite map of biodiversity priority areas
NBSAP: 3-way action plan
Reduce loss /
maintain in good condition
-
Land use planning
EIAs
Mining guideline
Classification of water
resources
Protect
- PA expansion strategy
- Biodiversity stewardship
- Management
effectiveness in PAs
Restore
- Env public works
- Spatial info to inform
broader NRM work
- Pilots to show value of
ecol infrastructure
biodiversity priority areas in Matzikama LM
CBA maps – using environmental and planning language
Critical Biodiversity Areas
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All the areas required to meet biodiversity
pattern and ecological process targets.
Must be maintained in a natural or nearnatural state.
Included in ecological corridors to
maintain connectivity.
Ecological Support Areas
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support the ecological functioning of
critical biodiversity areas
Must be maintained in at least a functional
state
Other Natural Areas
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Not required to meet biodiversity pattern or
process targets provided CBAs are not lost.
i.e. suitable for sustainable development.
Ecological Infrastructure: using language of engineering and
service delivery
“functioning ecosystems
that deliver valuable
services to people”
Biodiversity maps used to determine National
Protected Areas Expansion Strategy
Biodiversity maps used to prioritise location of private
& communally owned PAs and offer incentives
Protected Areas Act
Protected
areas
Protected
Environment
Protected Areas Act
conservation
Increasing support from conservation
authority
Increasing landowner commitment to
Increasing biodiversity importance
Nature Reserve
Biodiversity
Management
Agreement
Biodiversity Act
Biodiversity
Agreement
contract law
Biodiversity
Partnership Area
Non-binding
Conservation
areas
The National Grasslands Biodiversity
Programme
South Africa’s Grasslands Biome
A working landscape – with globally
significant biodiversity
Mainstreaming across landscapes
PROTECTED
State owned
and managed
protected areas
Mostly natural, high
biodiversity
importance; private/
communally owned
Protected areas
PRODUCTION
Largely natural, elements of
biodiversity importance;
low impact production
sectors
Largely modified for
intensive production
e.g. commercial crops
Biodiversity stewardship & best-practice
production
DEVELOPED
Light to heavily
modified or degraded
fragments of
biodiversity
Land-use planning
& decision making
Mainstreaming ‘tools’:
Biodiversity stewardship; maps; guidelines; regulatory instruments & decision-support systems…
Use of spatial data
• Systematic biodiversity
planning
• Identifies spatial
priorities
• Informs management
priorities on the ground
• Informs which sectors
to engage
Mainstreaming into plantation forestry
and small growers
Plantation forestry
st
1
to implement tools
and protect new areas
>32 780 ha
0 ha
new plantations in
biodiversity priority
areas
CPT used on
>290 000 ha
Mainstreaming into agriculture
Coal mining
st
1
to get government
endorsed regulatory
tools
>700 people trained
119 ha
Wetland offset pilot with 1
company
Proactive stewardship on
>9 200 ha
Agriculture
st
1 Protected
>97 760 ha
Environment
3
Biodiversity agreements
with land reform
communities
Biodiversity priority maps used to develop mining guidelines
Chamber of Mines CEO Bheki Sibiya
with Minister of Water and
Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa
Biodiversity maps used to inform siting of electricity grid infrastructure
through Strategic Integrated Projects of Presidency
Biodiversity maps used to inform siting of electricity grid infrastructure
through Strategic Integrated Projects of Presidency
The NBSAP Forum
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A one-stop shop for NBSAPs, that supports countries in their
critical work to reverse the global loss of biodiversity by 2020
Coordinated, targeted and demand-driven support
Connection with a global community of NBSAP practitioners who
are working to overcome similar challenges
Ability to share and find resources on each Aichi Target
Ability to obtain peer and expert review on a draft NBSAP
• 1,110 members * 178 countries * 78 languages
www.nbsapforum.net
NBSAP Spatial Data
Challenge: Sample Data Layers
Land Cover – Land Use
Pressure: Mining
Key Biodiversity Areas