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  1. Thunderstorm approaching Ingula
    Escarpment forest
    Bedford wetland
    Ingula mountain range
    Ingula wetlands and wall
    Bedford dam

    Ingula Nature Reserve

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      01-03-2021
    • Site number: 
      2446
    • Published since: 
      3 year(s)
    8,084 ha
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  2. Lower Berg River Estuary
    Salt marshes - Berg River Estuary
    Lower reaches Berg River Estuary
    Upstream of salt works

    Berg Estuary Ramsar Site

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      01-02-2022
    • Site number: 
      2466
    • Published since: 
      2 year(s)
    1,163 ha
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  3. Cape cormorants and artificial penguin nests(1)
    Cape cormorants and artificial penguin nests(2)
    Aerial photo of Dyer and Geyser Islands
    Cape fur seals on Geyser Island

    Dyer Island Provincial Nature Reserve and Geyser Island Provincial Nature Reserve

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      29-03-2019
    • Site number: 
      2384
    • Published since: 
      5 year(s)
    288 ha
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  4. Temporary Pan
    Pelicans with White breasted cormorants
    Yellow oxalis with Lighthouse
    Arum Lilies
    African Penguins with Shipwreck
    House Bay with jetty

    Dassen Island Nature Reserve

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      29-03-2019
    • Site number: 
      2383
    • Published since: 
      5 year(s)
    737 ha
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  5. Photo of the peat borrowing crab Potamonautes flavusjo (Rivercrest River Crab)
    Upper Lakenvlei Wetland, situated within the Middlepunt Nature Reserve

    Middelpunt Nature Reserve

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      15-03-2023
    • Site number: 
      2501
    • Published since: 
      1 year(s)
    510 ha
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  6. Collaring of Sable Antelope
    Vlei, Kgaswane Mountain Reserve
    Kgaswane
    Eland, Kgaswane Mountain Reserve
    Frithia pulchra, Kgaswane Mountain Reserve

    Kgaswane Mountain Reserve

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      29-03-2019
    • Site number: 
      2385
    • Published since: 
      5 year(s)
    4,952 ha
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    Verloren Valei Nature Reserve

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      16-10-2001
    • Site number: 
      1110
    • Published since: 
      23 year(s)
    5,891 ha
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  8. Ramsar logo

    Prince Edward Islands

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      22-05-2007
    • Site number: 
      1688
    • Published since: 
      17 year(s)
    37,500 ha
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  9. Rondevlei (looking southwards over the vlei towards Muizenberg Peak and Cape Point)
    Oblique view of the False Bay Nature Reserve looking north-westwards towards the city. The Strandfontein Birding Area is in the foreground, Zeekoevlei in the middle right and Rondevlei, middle left.
    Rondevlei (looking westwards from Zeekoevlei towards Muizenberg Peak and Silvermine)
    Strandfontein Birding Area (looking southwards from Zeekoevlei towards Cape Point). The construction of the new FBNR headquarters node (now completed) is visible in the foreground of the photo.
    Zeekoevlei (looking northwards across the vlei from Strandfontein Birding Area towards Devil’s Peak)
    Hippos in Rondevlei
    Various pictures at Strandfontein Birding Area
    Management Activities in the False Bay Nature Reserve
    Newly completed infrastructure on Zeekoevlei Eastern Shore, including braai areas (top left), ablution facilities (top right) and a landscaped central picnic area (bottom).
    False Bay Nature Reserve Headquarters Complex (left), showing community use of the multi-purpose hall and associated courtyard (top centre and right) and Architect’s impression of the now completed Complex (bottom right).
    Top Left: Boat trip on Rondevlei; Top Right and Bottom Left: Bird hides at Rondevlei; Bottom Right: Picnic Area at Rondevlei; Centre: Erica Verticillata (Cape Flats Erica) classified as ‘Extinct in the Wild’, and now growing at Rondevlei
    Environmental Education activities taking place within the FBNR
    Top Left: Start of the 2014 ‘Birdathon’ Fun Family Walk on Zeekoevlei’s Eastern Shore Top Right: The ‘Birdathon’ Festival at the central picnic area of Zeekoevlei’s Eastern Shore Bottom Left: Participants at one on the Quiz stations on the 2014 Fun Walk; Bottom Right: Eagle Encounters’ education d
    Friends and Neighbour Initiative, the ‘Other side of the Fence’ at Village Heights informal settlement on the western boundary of the FBNR. The FBNR boundary and interface zone between the settlement and the reserve can be seen in the photo on the bottom right, with the other photographs showing
    National Department of Tourism funded EPWP project on Zeekoevlei’s eastern shore

    False Bay Nature Reserve

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      02-02-2015
    • Site number: 
      2219
    • Published since: 
      9 year(s)
    1,542 ha
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    De Mond

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      02-10-1986
    • Site number: 
      342
    • Published since: 
      26 year(s)
    918 ha
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