This maps shows Mpumalanga's protected areas. There are 45 formal PAs are state owned and managed. There are 115 additional, informal PAs comprising private land committed in one way or another to conservation. The informal PAs may be further subdivided on the basis of their legal and administrative security (see Groups 1 to 3 below). There are 18 private reserves that are actively managed, relatively secure and formalised. The remaining 97 PAs are informally conserved areas whose current and future status is uncertain. Together this forms an extended PA network of sufficient significance that the full 160 PAs deserve to be assessed for their combined contribution to provincial biodiversity conservation (See MBCP Handbook for this assessment). 

Formal/Informal	Group	No	Types of protected areas
Formal protected areas	1	45	National Parks, Provincial Parks and Nature Reserves
Private protected areas	2	18	Municipal, Private and leased-land Nature Reserves
Unsecured protected areas	3	97	SA Natural Heritage Sites, Conservancies on private or state land