Cape Town’s Biodiversity Network

Cape Town’s Biodiversity Network

In a robust effort to protect a global biodiversity hotspot, the City of Cape Town embarked on a comprehensive and systematic conservation planning exercise.

After identifying critically important tracts of remnant indigenous vegetation within nationally and locally defined habitat units, conservation planning methodologies were used to define the best configuration for a Biodiversity Network.
 
This case study is part of a series of 14 new case studies in the Local Sustainability 2012 Case Study Series. This series illustrates a diverse range of local sustainability action facilitated by committed local governments and cover a wide range of themes across all regions. The examples have been compiled in collaboration with ICLEI regional offices and the overall project has been coordinated by the ICLEI World Secretariat.
 
The Cape Town example and the entire ICLEI Local Sustainability 2012 Case Study Series can be accessed at www.iclei.org/casestudies