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    Orange River Mouth

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      28-06-1991
    • Site number: 
      526
    • Published since: 
      33 year(s)
    2,000 ha
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    St. Lucia System

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      02-10-1986
    • Site number: 
      345
    • Published since: 
      26 year(s)
    155,500 ha
  3. Ramsar logo

    uMgeni Vlei Nature Reserve

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      19-03-2013
    • Site number: 
      2132
    • Published since: 
      11 year(s)
    958 ha
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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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