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November 11, 2025

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of 220 ecosystem types
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of 220 ecosystem types
Well Protected
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of 220 ecosystem types
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of 50 taxa assessed
Threatened

Summary

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Descriptive image captions. As in the 2018 synthesis report, photos get descriptive captions but are not numbered.

Page body

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etc.

Inserting footnotes and references

Footnotes

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References

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Here is a citation of a journal article1.

Here is a citation of a book2.

Here is a citation of an edited book3.

Here is a citation of a book chapter4.

Here is a citation of a report5.

Here is a citation of a website6.

Here is a citation of multiple references5,7,8

For a chapter or section in a book that is part of a series (e.g. Vegetation of South Africa) use the @inproceedings format9

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Graphs and maps

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Tables

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OVERALL types Well Protected Moderately Protected Poorly Protected Not Protected
subAntarctic 15 14 1 4
Coastal 65 28 52 41
Estuarine 4 8 7 3
Marine 47 62 22 19
Wetland 8 4 41 82
River 29 33 66 94
Inland Aquatic 37 37 107 176
Terrestrial 118 59 166 115

Information boxes

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Technical documentation

The last section of your page should contain links to technical documentation of the indicators and analyses presented on your page. Technical documentation can be in a variety of formats. It is not necessary to have all these in place, but there should at least be a technical report available in a public document repository (e.g. OPUS) or a published paper describing your methods. Edit and adapt the suggested layout below depending on what technical documentation is applicable to your page.

  • Code repository: github.com/SANBI-NBA/templates

  • Data repository: OPUS, Figshare, KNB or BGIS - link to the specific page within these websites containing your data.

  • Technical report: Add link to technical report in PDF format or Quarto website

Key publications

Jordaan, M.S., et al. 2020. Protected areas and endemic freshwater fishes of the Cape Fold Ecoregion: missing the boat for fish conservation? Frontiers in Environmental Science 8:502042. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2020.502042

References

1. Harris, L.R. et al. 2019. Advancing land-sea integration for ecologically meaningful coastal conservation and management. Biological Conservation 237: 81–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.06.020
2. Mittermeier, R.A. et al. 1997. Megadiversity: Earth’s biologically wealthiest nations. CEMEX/Agrupacion Sierra Madre, Mexico City.
3. Skowno, A.L. et al. (eds). 2019. South african national biodiversity assessment 2018 technical report volume 1: Terrestrial realm. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
4. Wilson, J.R. et al. 2018. Indicators. In Van Wilgen, B.W. & J.R. Wilson (eds), The status of biological invasions and their management in south africa in 2017: 13–26. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenboch; DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch.
5. Von Maltitz, G. et al. 2020. National terrestrial carbon sinks assessment: Technical report. Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, Pretoria.
6. The Natural History Museum. 2019. Butterflies and Moths database home page. Available at: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth. Accessed December 6, 2020.
7. Barger, N.N. et al. 2018. Chapter 3: Direct and indirect drivers of land degradation and restoration. In Montanarella, L. et al. (eds), The IPBES assessment report on land degradation and restoration: 137–218. Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Bonn, Germany.
8. Melaku, E. et al. 2024. Investigating the direct and indirect drivers of land use and land cover change from agriculture to acacia plantations in banja district, awi zone, ethiopia. East African Journal of Agriculture and Biotechnology 7: 269–283. https://doi.org/10.37284/eajab.7.1.1973
9. Rutherford, M.C. et al. 2006. Biomes and bioregions of Southern Africa. In Mucina, L. & M.C. Rutherford (eds), The vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. Strelitzia 19: 30–51. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.

Notes

  1. Insert a basic footnote by using the Visual editor’s Insert > Footnote. Type the footnote text into the box provided. Quarto will automatically number your references and footnotes in the order that they are inserted in the text.↩︎