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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 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.
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.
The reserve is one of the few City of Cape Town nature reserves where it is possible to find white-tailed rat (Mystromys albicaudatus) and aardvark (Orycteropus afer). The holotype of Blaauwberg dwarf burrowing skink ( Scelotes montispectus ) was collected within Blaauwberg Nature Reserve.
Langebaan Dune Strandveld (FS 5) Mons Ruber Fynbos Thicket (AT 43) Motherwell Karroid Thicket (AT 44) Nanaga Savanna Thicket (AT 45) Oudshoorn Karroid Thicket (AT 46) Overberg Dune Strandveld (FS 7) Saldanha Flats Strandveld (FS 3) Saldanha Granite Strandveld (FS 2) Saldanha Limestone Strandveld (FS 4) Saltaire Karroid Thicket (AT 47) Sardinia ...
Jockey’s Ridge State Park, about 200 miles east of Raleigh, is “home to the tallest living sand dune system on the Atlantic coast,” the state park system reports.
Edith Stephens Wetland Park is a nature reserve for wetlands and fynbos, located in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. The park consists of a large seasonal wetland , with surrounding stretches of Cape Flats Sand Fynbos and Cape Flats Dune Strandveld vegetation. [ 1 ]
Kalk Bay (Afrikaans: Kalkbaai) is a fishing village and suburb of Cape Town. It lies on the west coast of False Bay. Much of the town is built on the slopes of mountains which border the sea, with peaks of Table Mountain Sandstone forming valleys. [2] The railway from Cape Town to Simon's Town passes through Kalk Bay, which has one station near ...