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ZULULAND t Greater Itala complex Key Biodiversity Areas and Corridors in the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Hotspot HIGHLAND A biodiversity hotspot is an area that contains at least 1,500 In 2009, a team led by Conservation International and the Hluhluwe-Mkhuze u endemic plants, but has lost at least 70 percent of its native South National Biodiversity Institute consulted more vegetation. Scientists have identified 34 such areas around than 150 stakeholders from civil society, government, and GRASSLANDS lowveld the world, providing a basis for global prioritization of donor institutions to gather and synthesize data on conservation investments. biodiversity, socioeconomic and institutional context, climate Opathe Imfolozi link

p change, ecosystem services, and ongoing and planned Covering nearly 275,000 square kilometers and parts of conservation investments in the three countries in the Northern ZULULAND three countries, the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Hotspot hotspot. This team identified 72 KBAs and 12 corridors, is the second richest floristic region in (after which themselves are home to 534 threatened plant Drakensburg the Cape Floristic Region) and also the second richest species, 34 threatened bird species, 18 threatened reptile Melmoth a floristic region in Africa for its size. An estimated 8,100 plant species, 17 threatened mammal species, 11 threatened foothills species occur in the region, of which at least 1,900 are amphibian species, 16 threatened freshwater fish species, Melmoth endemic to the region. At a habitat level, one type of forest, and eight threatened invertebrate species. l a Nkandla grasslands u g e Melmoth three types of thicket, six types of bushveld and five types of T grasslands are endemic to the region. Approximately 18 To achieve maximum conservation impact with finite complex million people live in the hotspot. resources, CEPF has prioritized 22 KBAs and two corridors. Richard's Bay

M Criteria used to prioritize these targets include: number of KZN MIDLANDS Ngoye coastal complex This map depicts geographic priorities for conservation in globally threatened species, presence of threatened habitat the hotspot, showing Key Biodiversity Areas (site-level types, resilience to climate change, status of protection, Lower Mooi River 32°30'E outcomes) to be protected and corridors (landscape-level provision of ecosystem services, threats, and Bolopepmofortnuteninities Greytown Lower Tugela outcomes) to be consolidated in order to prevent for conservation action. HIGHLAND valley River valley Greater Greytown biodiversity loss. Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are sites GRASSLANDS complex that are globally significant for biodiversity conservation and CEPF’s niche in the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Hotspot Mvoti are considered actually or potentially manageable for is to support civil society in applying innovative approaches estuary conservation. KBAs contain species that require site-scale to conservation in under-capacitated protected areas, Key Maseru Midlands complex conservation to prevent extinction in the short- and medium- Biodiversity Areas, and priority corridors, thereby enabling term: globally threatened species, restricted-range species, changes in policy and building resilience in the region’s and globally significant congregations of species. Corridors ecosystems and economy to sustain biodiversity in the long

L E S O T H O are inter-connected landscapes of sites, anchored on KBAs, term. The specific strategic directions and investment Umdloti with the rest of the conservation corridor comprising either priorities for the hotspot can be found in the ecosystem Pietermaritzburg T areas that have the potential to become part of an existing profile available at www.cepf.net. L U E KBA (through management or restoration) or areas that mgen i Ethekwini contribute to the ability of the conservation corridor to Southern B • Boston north support all elements of biodiversity in the long term. Durban Conservation Outcomes 25°E Drakensburg L Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Eston Ethekwini A 25 0 25 50 75 100 scale: 1/1,400,000 Mistbelt complex south projection: sinusoidal 30°S T 30°S kilometers central meridian 28.75° east longitude foothills grasslands S KZN MIDLANDS Umzimk A ulu O

High Flats C hotspot boundary Biodiversity hotspots are regions D L A N S area that harbor especially high S S numbers of endemic species Northern A PONDOLAND R N CEPF priority corridor and, at the same time, have G Umzimkulu Z been significantly impacted by Vernon D complex K human activities. Each hotspot N Crooks A LIMPOPO other biodiversity conservation corridor faces extreme threats and has s corridor L already lost at least 70 percent H of its original natural vegetation. G I Over 50 percent of the world’s Midlands Key Biodiversity Area, CEPF Priority* H plant species and 42 percent of Oribi Gorge- e all terrestrial vertebrate species

U are endemic to the biodiversity m Mbumbazi z hotspots, making them urgent im Umdloti Key Biodiversity Area, Other* v complex priorities for biodiversity u bu conservation at a global scale.

protected area m The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Ugie Pondoland North Coast Fund (CEPF) is a joint initiative of Conservation International, the Global Mbabane town (national capitals underlined) Environment Facility, the Government of Japan, the MacArthur Foundation, P O N D O L A N D o Elliot L'Agence Française de -Tsolo Développement and the World Bank. Lower A fundamental goal of CEPF is to country border ensure civil society is engaged in Indwe Cala Mzimbvubu biodiversity conservation. c Umtata Indwe-Cala--Elliot Port St. river The political and geographic Port St. Johns designations shown on this map do not

t Johns Queenstown highlands imply the expression of any opinion on Forests I N D I A N behalf of CEPF or any of its partners lake concerning the legal status or Mb a deliniation of the frontiers of any sh e country, territory or area. Wi Queenstown t-K u e i Kei Fort Fordyce Swart-K this map was produced by the ei Mouth- * Key Biodiversity Areas are targets for achieving site-level Conservation Mapping Program Reserve Haven conservation outcomes. CEPF funding is not available for K.Koenig - Cartographer complex marine conservation. Conservation International Middle Kei-Cathcart † IUCN Categories Ia, Ib, II-VI 2011 Crystal Drive Camdeboo Mountain O C E A N complex Arlington, VA 22202 O Zebra National Mbashe River- data: © November 2010 CI Park complex Conservation International Coffee Bay Global Shoreline Database, January 2001, Veridian (GDAIS) Groo t-K South African National Biodiversity Institute ei VMap0, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency A M AT H O L E - S N E E U B E R G M O N T A N E B E LT Lower Kei 32°30'S 32°30'S

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Roster of Key Biodiversity Areas Roster of Biodiversity Conservation Corridors n * denotes priority * denotes priority 1 Bathurst 19 Hazyview 37 Massingr-Limpopo National Park 55 Oribi Gorge-Mbumbazi complex 1 Albany 2 Big Bend-Manzini-Hlathikulu 20 High Flats area 38 Mbashe River-Coffee Bay 56 Orpen 2 Amathole-Sneeuberg Montane Belt 3 Bisho 21 Hlane-Mlawula complex 39 Melmoth 57 Palaborwa 3 Escarpment Lowveld Links o * 4 Boston 22 Hluhluwe-Mkhuze lowveld 40 Melmoth grasslands 58 Pearston Escarpment * 4 Highland Grasslands 5 Bushbuckridge * 23 Hogsback-Stutterheim 41 Middle Kei-Cathcart *59 Pondoland North Coast 5 KZN Coastal Belt 6 Camdeboo complex 24 Indwe-Cala-Ngcobo-Elliot * 42 Midlands *60 Pongola-Magudu 6 KZN Midlands 7 Crocodile River 25 Ingwavuma * 43 Mistbelt grasslands *61 Ponto do Ouro 7 Lebombo Transfrontier 8 East Cape St. Francis complex 8 Limpopo

C 26 Katberg complex * 44 Mountain Zebra National Park complex *62 Port Elizabeth complex 9 East London and south 27 -Haven 45 Mthatha-Tsolo *63 Port St. Johns Forests 9 Mozambique Coastal Belt 10 Eston complex 28 Kenton-Alexandria-Paterson 46 Mvoti estuary complex 64 Queenstown highlands * 10 Pondoland 11 Ethekwini north * 29 Licuati Forests and Eastern Swazi Lebombo 47 Namaacha 65 Sibaya-Kosi Bay 11 Swaziland Lowveld *12 Ethekwini south 30 Lower Kei 48 Ncomati plain *66 Southern Drakensburg foothills 12 Zululand 13 Fort Fordyce Reserve complex 31 Lower Mooi River valley 49 Ngoye coastal complex 67 Tshaneni 14 Great Fish * 32 Lower Mzimbvubu 50 Nkandla complex 68 Umdloti 15 Greater Addo complex * 33 Lower Tugela River valley 51 Nkomati valley *69 Umzimkulu complex 16 Greater Grahamstown 34 Magude-Muomba * 52 Northern Drakensburg foothills *70 Vernon Crooks corridor *17 Greater Greytown complex * 35 Manhica * 53 Northern Eastern Cape 71 Waterford-Jansenville *18 Greater Itala complex 36 Maputo north 54 Opathe Imfolozi link 72 Xai-xai and Limpopo floodplain scale: 1/230,000,000 projection: sinusoidal central meridian 28.75° east longitude