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National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003 (Act No. 57 of 2003)Chapter 2 : System of Protected Areas in South Africa9. Kinds of protected areas |
The system of protected areas in South Africa consists of the following kinds of protected areas:
| (a) | special nature reserves, national parks, nature reserves (including wilderness areas) and protected environments; |
[Section 9(a) substituted by section 3(a) of Act No. 31 of 2004]
| (b) | world heritage sites; |
| (c) | marine protected areas; |
[Section 9(c) inserted by section 3(b) of Act No. 31 of 2004]
| (d) | specially protected forest areas, forest nature reserves and forest wilderness areas declared in terms of the National Forests Act, 1998 (Act No. 84 of 1998); and |
| (e) | mountain catchment areas declared in terms of the Mountain Catchment Areas Act, 1970 (Act No. 63 of 1970) |
