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More than half of the Cape’s Strandveld has been lost to urbanisation and the building of beach resorts, and only 14 percent of this unique vegetation type is actually conserved. Habitat preserves. Nature preserves with Cape Flats Dune Strandveld habitat include: Blaauwberg Conservation Area; Edith Stephens Wetland Park; Rondevlei Nature Reserve
This conservation area consists of 248 ha (610 acres) of endangered dune vegetation and limestone cliffs, extending along a portion of the False Bay coastline. The Cape Flats Dune Strandveld vegetation in this reserve contains over 150 plant species. These include evergreen shrubs, flowering succulents, arum lilies and a variety of daisy species.
This conservation area conserves the unique local “Cape Flats Dune Strandveld” vegetation with its dense evergreen thickets, flowers, shrubs and trees. The last remaining forest of the endangered White Milkwood tree (Sideroxylon inerme) on the Cape Flats is found on this reserve, and it is also home to the largest and highest dune system on the Cape Peninsula.
The Cape Flats (Afrikaans: Die Kaapse Vlakte) is an expansive, low-lying, flat area situated to the southeast of the central business district of Cape Town. The Cape Flats is also the name of an administrative region of the City of Cape Town , which lies within the larger geographical area.
The park consists of a large seasonal wetland, with surrounding stretches of Cape Flats Sand Fynbos and Cape Flats Dune Strandveld vegetation. [1] Seven Red Data plant species have been recorded here as well as nearly a hundred species of bird, several amphibians (including a population of endangered Western Leopard Toad ), reptiles and mammals.
Blombos Strandveld (FS 8) Buffels Mesic Thicket (AT 21) Buffels Valley Thicket (AT 22) Cape Flats Dune Strandveld (FS 6) Crossroads Grassland Thicket (AT 23) Doubledrift Karroid Thicket (AT 24) Eastern Gwarrieveld (AT 25) Elands Forest Thicket (AT 26) Escarpment Arid Thicket (AT 27) Escarpment Mesic Thicket (AT 28) Escarpment Valley Thicket (AT 29)
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A surviving remnant of Cape Flats Sand Fynbos at Rondebosch Common. Heath (Erica spp.), cone-bush and restio specimens. Cape Flats Sand Fynbos (CFSF), previously known as Sand Plain Fynbos, is a critically endangered vegetation type that occurs only within the city of Cape Town. Less than 1% of this unique lowland fynbos vegetation is conserved ...