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- South Africa's New Marine Protected Areas, 2019
- Experimental Ecosystem Accounts for South Africa's Estuaries: Extent Condition and Ecosystem Services Account
- Ecological Infrastructure Investment Framework: Implementation and Monitoring Plan
- South Africa's National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan 2015 - 2025
- Regulations for the Proper Administration of Nature Reserves
- National Protected Areas Expansion Strategy for South Africa 2016
- National Environmental Management Protected Areas Act 57 of 2003
- National Biodiversity Stewardship Guideline 2018
- CMP Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation v4 0
- Provincial Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan
- Nema threatened ecosystems list 2022
- National Biodiversity Assessment 2018 Technical Report Vol. 4: Marine
- National Biodiversity Assessment 2018: The status of South Africa's Ecosystems and Biodiversity
- National Biodiversity Assessment 2018: Technical Report Vol. 3: Estuarine Realm
- IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1, Second edition
- Implementation note: Revised List of Threatened Terrestrial Ecosystems
- The Greater Cape Town Water Fund - Business Case: March 2019
- National Coastal and Marine Biodiversity Spatial Plan: CBA Factsheet
- Status of the South African Marine Fishery Resources 2025
- Strategic Water Source Areas Framework for Local Municipalities
- Transport and utilisation of indigenous freshwater fishes in the Western Cape Province
- Pseudobarbus outeniqua sp. nov., a new redfin species (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) from the Cape Fold Ecoregion of South Africa
- Consumptive use of wild flora from CapeNature-managed protected areas
- Colophon scholtzi sp. nov.: a newly described highly threatened stag beetle (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) from South Africa
- Guidelines for the application of IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Categories and Criteria
- Investigating factors that influence the breeding success of the endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) at a mainland and island colony in the Western Cape, South Africa
- MPA Technical Report: Goukamma Baited Remote Underwater Video (BRUV) 2013-2018
- National Biodiersity Assessment 2025: The status of South Africa's biodiversity - Summary of findings and key messages
- The South African Scoring System (SASS) Version 5 Rapid Bioassessment Method for Rivers
- CapeNature list of partners - 2026
- Intervention Report: TMF Climate Change Corridors - GFR