Using Municipal Spatial Development Frameworks to protect biodiversity

Multi-faceted intervention is required to ensure that municipalities identify priorities for biodiversity conservation, include them in their SDFs, and then protect them by denying approval for any inappropriate development. The C.A.P.E. partnership has therefore undertaken a number of projects which support the development of sound SDFs which protect biodiversity priorities through appropriate zoning. This also, indirectly, expedites development by directing it towards areas where biodiversity impacts are minimal.