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To achieve maximum conservation impact with finite
resources, CEPF has prioritized 22 KBAs and two corridors.
Criteria used to prioritize these targets include: number ofglobally threatened species, presence of threatened habitat
types, resilience to climate change, status of protection,
provision of ecosystem services, threats, andBloemfontein
opportunities
for conservation action.

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Melmothgrasslands

NkandlaMelmothcomplex

Richard's Bay

KZN MIDLANDS

Lower
Mooi RivervalleyHIGHLANDGRASSLANDS

CEPF’s niche in the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Hotspot
is to support civil society in applying innovative approaches
to conservation in under-capacitated protected areas, KeyBiodiversity Areas, and priority corridors, thereby enablingchanges in policy and building resilience in the region’s
ecosystems and economy to sustain biodiversity in the longterm. The specific strategic directions and investment
priorities for the hotspot can be found in the ecosystemprofile available at www.cepf.net.

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* Key Biodiversity Areas are targets for achieving site-level
conservation outcomes. CEPF funding is not available formarineconservation.
†IUCN Categories Ia, Ib, II-VI
data:
Conservation International
Global Shoreline Database, January 2001, Veridian (GDAIS)South African National Biodiversity Institute
VMap0, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Conservation
Outcomes
MaputalandPondoland-Albany

Port
Alfred27°30'E

Port Elizabeth complex

Port Elizabeth

East CapeSt. Francis complex

25°E

Roster of Key Biodiversity Areas* denotes priority

1 Bathurst
2 Big Bend-Manzini-Hlathikulu
3 Bisho* 4 Boston
5 Bushbuckridge
6 Camdeboo complex
7 Crocodile River
8 East Cape St. Francis complex
9 East London and south
10 Eston complex
11 Ethekwini north* 12 Ethekwini south
13 Fort Fordyce Reserve complex
14 Great Fish
15 Greater Addo complex
16 Greater Grahamstown* 17 Greater Greytown complex* 18 Greater Itala complex

19 Hazyview
20 High Flats area
21 Hlane-Mlawula complex
22 Hluhluwe-Mkhuze lowveld* 23 Hogsback-Stutterheim
24 Indwe-Cala-Ngcobo-Elliot
25 Ingwavuma
26 Katberg complex
27 Kei Mouth-Haven
28 Kenton-Alexandria-Paterson* 29 Licuati Forests and Eastern Swazi Lebombo
30 Lower Kei
31 Lower Mooi River valley* 32 Lower Mzimbvubu* 33 Lower Tugela River valley
34 Magude-Muomba* 35 Manhica
36 Maputo north

37 Massingr-Limpopo National Park
38 Mbashe River-Coffee Bay
39 Melmoth
40 Melmoth grasslands
41 Middle Kei-Cathcart* 42 Midlands* 43 Mistbelt grasslands* 44 Mountain Zebra National Park complex
45 Mthatha-Tsolo
46 Mvoti estuary complex
47 Namaacha
48 Ncomati plain
49 Ngoye coastal complex
50 Nkandla complex
51 Nkomati valley* 52 Northern Drakensburg foothills* 53 Northern Eastern Cape
54 Opathe Imfolozi link

this map was produced by theConservation Mapping Program
K.Koenig - Cartographer
Conservation International
2011 Crystal Drive
Arlington, VA 22202© November 2010 CI

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BathurstKentonAlexandriaPaterson

The Critical Ecosystem Partnership
Fund (CEPF) is a joint initiative ofConservation International, the GlobalEnvironment Facility, the Governmentof Japan, the MacArthur Foundation,
L'Agence Française deDéveloppement and the World Bank.
A fundamental goal of CEPF is toensure civil society is engaged inbiodiversity conservation.

32°30'S

HogsbackStutterheim
Katberg complex

Biodiversity hotspots are regionsthat harbor especially highnumbers of endemic species
and, at the same time, havebeen significantly impacted byhuman activities. Each hotspot
faces extreme threats and has
already lost at least 70 percentof its original natural vegetation.
Over 50 percent of the world’s
plant species and 42 percent of
all terrestrial vertebrate species
are endemic to the biodiversity
hotspots, making them urgent
priorities for biodiversity
conservation at a global scale.

The political and geographic
designations shown on this map do not
imply the expression of any opinion on
behalf of CEPF or any of its partners
concerning the legal status ordeliniation of the frontiers of any
country, territory or area.

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ZULU LANDTThis map depicts geographic priorities for conservation in
the hotspot, showing Key Biodiversity Areas (site-leveloutcomes) to be protected and corridors (landscape-leveloutcomes) to be consolidated in order to prevent
biodiversity loss. Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are sitesthat are globally significant for biodiversity conservation andare considered actually or potentially manageable forconservation. KBAs contain species that require site-scaleconservation to prevent extinction in the short- and mediumterm: globally threatened species, restricted-range species,and globally significant congregations of species. Corridors
are inter-connected landscapes of sites, anchored on KBAs,
with the rest of the conservation corridor comprising either
areas that have the potential to become part of an existing
KBA (through management or restoration) or areas that
contribute to the ability of the conservation corridor to
support all elements of biodiversity in the long term.

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Covering nearly 275,000 square kilometers and parts ofthree countries, the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Hotspot
is the second richest floristic region in southern Africa (afterthe Cape Floristic Region) and also the second richest
floristic region in Africa for its size. An estimated 8,100 plant
species occur in the region, of which at least 1,900 areendemic to the region. At a habitat level, one type of forest,
three types of thicket, six types of bushveld and five types ofgrasslands are endemic to the region. Approximately 18
million people live in the hotspot.

HIGHLANDIn 2009, a team led by Conservation International and theSouth Africa National Biodiversity Institute consulted morethan 150 stakeholders from civil society, government, anddonor institutions to gather and synthesize data on
biodiversity, socioeconomic and institutional context, climatechange, ecosystem services, and ongoing and planned
conservation investments in the three countries in thehotspot. This team identified 72 KBAs and 12 corridors,
which themselves are home to 534 threatened plant
species, 34 threatened bird species, 18 threatened reptilespecies, 17 threatened mammal species, 11 threatenedamphibian species, 16 threatened freshwater fish species,and eight threatened invertebrate species.

EA biodiversity hotspot is an area that contains at least 1,500
endemic plants, but has lost at least 70 percent of its nativevegetation. Scientists have identified 34 such areas aroundthe world, providing a basis for global prioritization ofconservation investments.

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55 Oribi Gorge-Mbumbazi complex
56 Orpen
57 Palaborwa
58 Pearston Escarpment* 59 Pondoland North Coast* 60 Pongola-Magudu* 61 Ponto do Ouro
* 62 Port Elizabeth complex* 63 Port St. Johns Forests
64 Queenstown highlands
65 Sibaya-Kosi Bay* 66 Southern Drakensburg foothills
67 Tshaneni
68 Umdloti* 69 Umzimkulu complex* 70 Vernon Crooks corridor
71 Waterford-Jansenville
72 Xai-xai and Limpopo floodplain

Roster of Biodiversity Conservation Corridors* denotes priority

1 Albany
2 Amathole-Sneeuberg Montane Belt
3 Escarpment Lowveld Links* 4 Highland Grasslands
5 KZN Coastal Belt
6 KZN Midlands
7 Lebombo Transfrontier
8 Limpopo
9 Mozambique Coastal Belt
10Pondoland*11 Swaziland Lowveld
12 Zululandscale: 1/230,000,000
projection: sinusoidal
central meridian 28.75° east longitude