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SANBI Launches New Biodiversity GIS Website - 13 December 2007

SANBI launched its new Biodiversity GIS website on 1 November 2007. The website was redeveloped to provide easier access to biodiversity planning information, and supportive tools to assist with land-use decision-making.

Features of the redesigned website include:

1. Free access to over 120 GIS data layers and 34 biodiversity planning and related project reports.
2. The ability to perform a biodiversity assessment against a selected cadastre. The Land-Use Decision Support tool takes the user through a three-step process to generate a report of biodiversity planning data against a land-parcel and to export the area of interest to Google Earth.
3. The ability to search for projects per municipality using the Municipal Biodiversity Plan Index
4. The ability to upload and map species distribution data from a GPS using the Species Distribution Mapping tool
5. Updated training material