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    Incorporating the Garden Route Biodiversity Sector Plan 2010 into the Knysna Municipality Integrated SDF 2015
    (SANBI, 2015-06-26) Alant, Maretha; Baard, Johan
    The entire Knysna Municipality is located in the Garden Route National Park (GRNP) buffer zone and mainstreaming biodiversity and climate change adaptation into the Knysna Integrated Spatial Development Framework (ISDF) is very important to SANParks. Key issues are: 1. The Knysna Municipal area contains critically endangered, endangered and vulnerable listed threatened ecosystems, as published in the Government Gazette on 9 December 2011. The Garden Route Biodiversity Sector Plan was published in 2010 and the spatial footprints of the Critical Biodiversity Areas (CBAs) and critically endangered vegetation are not overlapping. 2. The draft ISDF states that due to the destruction of natural habitat it is presently only possible to protect the steep slopes and valleys around rivers, an incorrect statement. 3. The Western Cape PSDF 2014 places biodiversity in position 1 and the Knysna ISDF Guiding Legal Framework places biodiversity in position 10. 4. The GRNP buffer zone is predominantly on private land and has no ‘special or formal’ legal status. Mainstreaming biodiversity is a serious challenge without the municipal political will to embrace landscape scale conservation.
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