Table Mountain National Park T PLAN N MANAGEME – Park Management PARK NATIONAL Plan November 2015 TABLE MOUNTAIN For the period 2015-2025 Section 1: Authorisation This management plan is hereby internally accepted and authorised as required for managing the Table Mountain National Park in terms of Sections 39 and 41 of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act (Act 57 0f 2003) and Section 21 of the World Heritage Convention Act No. 49 of 1999. Mr P. Gordon Park Manager: Table Mountain National Park Date: Mr N. Johnson General Manager: Cape Cluster Date: T PLAN T N Mr P. Daphne Acting Managing Executive: Parks Date: MANAGEME – Mr. F. Mketeni Chief Executive: SANParks Date PARK NATIONAL Ms J. Yawitch Date: Chair SANParks Board MOUNTAIN TABLE Approved by the Minister of Environment Affairs Mrs B.E.E. Molewa, MP Date: Minister of Environment Affairs T PLAN T N MANAGEME – NATIONAL PARK PARK NATIONAL TABLE MOUNTAIN MOUNTAIN TABLE Table of contents No. Index Page Authorisation 1 Section 1: 1 Table of contents 1 Glossary 4 Acronyms and abbreviations 5 Lists of figures, tables and appendices 6 Introduction 8 Section 2: Legal status 10 2.1 Name of the park 10 2.2 Location 10 2.3 History of establishment 10 2.4 Contractual agreements 11 2.4.1 Private landowners 11 2.4.2 Local municipality 12 2.5 Co-management agreements 12 2.6 Total area 13 2.7 Highest point 13 2.8 Municipal areas in which the park falls 13 MANAGEMENT PLAN MANAGEMENT 2.9 Land claims and unauthorised occupation 14 – 2.10 International, national and provincial listings 14 2.11 Environmental authorisations 14 2.12 Biophysical and socio-economic description 14 MANAGEMENT PLAN MANAGEMENT 2.12.1 Climate 14 – 2.12.2 Topography 15 2.12.3 Geology and soils 15 2.12.4 Freshwater ecosystems 16 2.12.5 Flora 17 2.12.6 Fauna 18 2.12.7 Fire 18 2.12.8 Marine ecosystem 19 2.12.9 Cultural heritage 19 2.12.10 Tourism 19 2.12.11 Socio-economic context 20 PARK NATIONAL MOUNTAIN TABLE Section 3: Policy framework 22 3.1 SANParks coordinating policy framework 22 3.2 Park specific framework 22 3.3 Management plan key functions 23 PARK NATIONAL MOUNTAIN TABLE 3.4 Park regulations and internal rules 23 Section 4: Consultation 26 Section 5: Purpose and vision 28 5.1 Purpose of the Table Mountain National Park 28 5.2 Vision and mission 28 5.3 Desired state of Table Mountain National Park 29 5.4 Operating values 30 5.5 Park context 30 5.6 Park key attributes 30 5.7 High level objectives 34 Section 1: Authorisation | 1 Table of contents Section 6: Zoning 40 6.1 Introduction 40 6.2 Overview of visitor use zones 41 6.2.1 Remote Core 41 6.2.2 Remote 42 6.2.3 Quiet 42 6.2.4 Low Intensity Leisure 43 6.2.5 High Intensity Leisure 43 6.2.6 Special management overlays 43 6.2.7 Park buffer zone 44 6.3 Overview of Visitor Site categories 44 6.3.1 Tourist destination visitor site 44 6.3.2 Mixed use visitor site 44 6.3.3 Picnic or braai site 45 6.3.4 Park entry point 45 6.3.5 Park accommodation visitor site 45 6.3.6 Visitor Site volumes 45 Section 7: Access and facilities 46 7.1 Access points 46 7.2 Restricted access area 46 7.3 Airfields and flight corridors 46 7.4 Facilities for vessels 46 7.5 Visitor facilities and activities 46 MANAGEMENT PLAN MANAGEMENT 7.6 Administration facilities 48 7.7 Commercial activities 49 – 7.8 Mining 49 7.9 Community use 49 7.10 Servitudes 49 Section 8: Consolidation and expansion strategy 50 8.1 Background 50 8.2 Park consolidation strategy 51 8.2.1 State property 51 8.2.2 Municipal property 51 8.2.3 Private property 52 8.3 Cape Floral Region Protected Areas World Heritage Site 54 8.4 Marine management consolidation 55 Section 9: Concept development plan 56 9.1 Development nodes 56 PARK NATIONAL MOUNTAIN TABLE 9.1.1 Signal Hill – Kloofnek – Tafelberg Road upgrade 56 9.1.2 Cape of Good Hope upgrade 57 9.1.3 Establish a marine gateway/s 58 9.1.4 Groote Schuur Estate upgrade 58 9.1.5 Tokai Manor precinct upgrade 59 9.1.6 Boulders Visitor Centre upgrade 59 9.1.7 Movement network upgrade 59 9.1.8 Tokai and Cecilia plantation rehabilitation 60 9.1.9 Integrated land consolidation implications 60 9.2 Infrastructure development 60 9.2.1 City Bowl 60 9.2.2 Atlantic Seaboard 60 9.2.3 Back Table and Orange Kloof 61 2 | Table Mountain National Park – Park Management Plan: 2015-2025 Table of contents 9.2.4 Greater Newlands 61 9.2.5 Constantiaberg 61 9.2.6 Silvermine 61 9.2.7 Tokai 62 9.2.8 Noordhoek Wetlands 62 9.2.9 Red Hill 62 9.2.10 Simon’s Town 62 9.2.11 Cape of Good Hope 62 9.3 Communication routes 63 9.4 Service supply routes 63 Section 10: Strategic plan 64 10 Introduction 64 10.1 Bioregional management 65 10.1.1 Land consolidation programme 66 10.1.2 Mainstreaming biodiversity programme 67 10.1.3 World Heritage Site management 69 10.2 Biodiversity management 70 10.2.1 Ecosystem services programme 70 10.2.1.1 Functional ecosystems programme 71 10.2.1.2 Integrated fire management programme 72 10.2.1.3 Fauna management Programme 74 10.2.2 Alien and invasive species programme 76 PLAN MANAGEMENT 10.2.3 Species of special concern programme 80 – 10.2.4 Resource use programme 82 10.2.5 Habitat degradation and rehabilitation programme 83 10.2.6 Freshwater programme 84 PLAN MANAGEMENT 10.2.7 Marine management programme 85 – 10.3 Cultural heritage management 87 10.4 Responsible tourism management 89 10.5 Constituency-building 96 10.6 Effective park management 99 10.6.1 Environmental management programme 99 10.6.2 Risk management programme 101 10.6.3 Financial management and administration programme 102 10.6.4 Human capital development programme 104 10.6.5 Information management programme 106 PARK NATIONAL MOUNTAIN TABLE 10.6.6 Infrastructure programme 107 10.6.7 Safety and security programme 108 10.6.8 Effective park communication 110 Section 11: Plan costing 112 PARK NATIONAL MOUNTAIN TABLE 11 Introduction 112 11.1 Expenditure budgets 112 11.2 Five year income estimation 115 Section 12: References 116 Annexures 118 Section 1: Authorisation | 3 Glossary Flows the definition as per the NEM:PAA and includes an airborne craft of any Aircraft type whatsoever, whether self-propelled or not, and includes hovercraft and drones. The Biodiversity Network (BioNet) is the fine-scale systematic biodiversity plan for the City of Cape, aligned to local and national biodiversity targets listed in BioNet NEM:BA, and therefore indicates minimum biodiversity conservation requirements on the Peninsula Conservation Fees Fees payable when entering the Park. The park desired state is based on a collectively developed vision and set of Desired state objectives of the desired future conditions Endemism Confined to a specific place or area. Extra-limital Those species occurring outside their historical distribution. DEAs guidelines for the development of a management plan for a protected Guidelines area in terms of NEM:PAA (Cowan and Mpongoma 2010). Unique or special characteristics of the Park, the determinants of which Key attributes management should strive to protect, and the threats towards which management should strive to minimise The objectives for a park, with the most important, high level objectives at the Objectives hierarchy top, cascading down to objectives at finer levels of detail, and eventually to operational actions at the lowest level. An articulation of the Vision that describes why the Park exists and its overall Park Mission philosophy on how to achieve its desired state. An Environmental Management Programme to address the range of impacts Recreational EMP from certain recreational activities that are undertaken in the Park. Tourism that maximises benefits to local communities, minimises negative social or environmental impacts, and helps local people conserve fragile MANAGEMENT PLAN MANAGEMENT cultures, habitats and species. Responsible tourism – Or, it is a tourism or leisure activity implementing a practice that is respectful of natural and cultural environment and which contributes, in an ethical manner, to local economic development. A person, an organ of state or a community contemplated in section 82(1)(a); Stakeholder or an indigenous community contemplated in section 82(1)(b) of NEM:BA Provides a list of plants and animals that are endangered and tells how they Threatened Red List are being threatened. The lists are prepared and published by the IUCN, The World Conservation Union. A location or an area, possibly an intersection, which is identified for multi- Tourism development tourism services. Depending on volumes, this will generally offer a variety of node products and services and may include an activity departure point and would likely be zoned as high-intensity leisure. A city approved spatial planning policy aimed at limiting urban sprawl and Urban Edge piecemeal development. TABLE MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK PARK NATIONAL MOUNTAIN TABLE 4 | Table Mountain National Park – Park Management Plan: 2015-2025 Acronyms and abbreviations BSP Biodiversity social projects CARA Conservation of Agricultural Resources Act (Act 43 0f 1983) CDF Conservation development framework Cape Floristic Region: refers to the smallest of the six recognised floral CFR kingdoms of the world Cape Floral Region: the proclamation of the Cape Floral Region Protected CFRPAWHS Areas as a world heritage site CPF Coordinated policy framework (SANParks) CPPNE Cape Peninsula Protected Natural Environment CRMF Corporate risk management framework CSD Conservation services division DCA Damage Causing Animals DEA Department of Environment Affairs DAFF Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries EE