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  1. 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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  2. Ramsar logo

    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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    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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  4. 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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  6. Picturesque view of Sekhukhuneland from Steenkampberg Mountane grassland
    Groot Dwars River falls on the upper reaches of the Groot Dwars River
    Ibis falls on the catchment of Everest tributary of the Groot Dwars River
    Newly found plant, Bulbine decastroi, associated with wetlands
    Bulbine decastroi in full bloom in a wetland on DBNR
    Disa alticola a plant species of conservation concern with a vulnerable status found at DBNR
    Aloe Modesta, the only sweetly scented aloe in Africa, found on DBNR
    Bright yellow inflorescence of Bulbine decastroi
    High altitude sheetrock seep wetland found on DBNR
    Newly found, undescribed Ledebouria sp. nov. ‘noritica’ ined. found on Sheetrock wetland habitat on norite on DBNR
    Breeding colony of Southern Bald Ibis at Ibis falls on DBNR
    Southern Bald ibis chick on nest as well as an egg in an adjacent nest at the breeding colony on Ibis falls
    Bulbine decastroi with spectacular inflorescence
    Patches of Afromontane Forest
    Numerous hillslope seep wetlands occur at DBNR
    Clear waters of the upland rivers at DBNR

    De Berg Nature Reserve

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      02-02-2024
    • Site number: 
      2532
    • Published since: 
      0 year(s)
    1,265 ha
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    Wilderness Lakes

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      28-06-1991
    • Site number: 
      524
    • Published since: 
      33 year(s)
    1,300 ha
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    Nylsvley Nature Reserve

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      07-07-1998
    • Site number: 
      952
    • Published since: 
      26 year(s)
    3,970 ha
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  9. Panoramic of Bot/Kleinmond Estuarine System
    Bot/Kleinmond Estuarine System
    images of breaching of the Bot River Estuary including pre and post breaching.
    Images of breaching of the Bot River Estuary including pre and post breaching.
    Images of breaching of the Bot River Estuary including pre and post breaching.
    Images of breaching of the Bot River Estuary including pre and post breaching.
    Images of breaching of the Bot River Estuary including pre and post breaching.
    Images of breaching of the Bot River Estuary including pre and post breaching.

    Bot - Kleinmond Estuarine System

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      31-01-2017
    • Site number: 
      2291
    • Published since: 
      7 year(s)
    1,350 ha
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  10. Mahanga (within Banyini Pan)
    Mahanga (within Banyini Pan)
    Luvuvhu and Limpopo River confluence at Crook's Corner
    Mambvumbvanyi Pan
    Mapimbana Pan
    Nwambi Pan
    Nwambi Pan (dry season)
    Luvuvhu River floodplain
    Xagova Pan
    Nghila Pan
    University of Venda scientists explaining pan ecological character to members of the Makuleke Communal Property Association and Ministry officials (DFFE) at Hapi Pan
    The Luvuvhu River flowing through the Lanner Gorge before entering the Makuleke Ramsar site floodplains
    The Luvuvhu River floodplain during the dry season
    fever tree forest at Gwalala
    dry season game utilization of the floodplain
    in-field discussions with elders of the Makuleke community on how they utilised the resources of the pans before their forceful removal from the land in the 1960s

    Makuleke Wetlands

    • Country: 
      South Africa
    • Designation date: 
      22-05-2007
    • Site number: 
      1687
    • Published since: 
      0 year(s)
    10,799 ha
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