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24 Jun 2022
Book That Much Needed Break at 40% Discount This Winter

Beat the winter chill at Mvubu Bush Lodge. A rustic wood thatch accommodation nestled amongst the milkwood forest and Groenvlei lake, situated between Sedgefield and Knysna.

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24 Jun 2022
Comedians Commend CapeNature’s Conservation Efforts

On one of their rare breaks during the festival, the comedy troupe was whisked away by CapeNature for an outing to the entity’s award-winning Kogelberg Nature Reserve and the popular penguin colony in Betty’s Bay, Stony Point.

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24 Jun 2022
Junior hikers join Cubs Club

The event coincided with International Day for Biological Diversity – an annual calendar day set aside to bring awareness to the importance of biodiversity. This year’s theme, Building a shared future for all life”, presented the perfect learning opportunity to guide the next generation on how they can build an inclusive future by caring for nature.

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24 Jun 2022
Western Cape Umbrella Fire Protection Association and Provincial Veld Fire Working Group meeting

It is through collaborations and excellent working relationships that we are collectively able to manage veld fires that may pose a threat in the Western Cape.

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10 Jun 2022
It’s a #CapeNatureWinter this 2022

CapeNature and the Rocklands partners have just kicked off their world-renowned winter bouldering season at Cederberg Wilderness. Every year, both seasoned and novice climbers flock to the Rocklands to test their skills on more than 1500 invigorating developed ‘problems’.

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8 Jun 2022
Thought-provoking insights at annual CapeNature Conservation Review

The online event was presented to more than 200 registered delegates. The Review provides an opportunity for CapeNature and partners to showcase “a year in review”. The apt theme of “Resilience is in our Nature” opened the opportunity to reflect on resilience thinking.

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8 Jun 2022 by Martine Jordaan, CapeNature Ecologist
Freshwater fish of Meiringspoort

A freshwater fish survey was conducted in the poort following a report of the presence of alien and invasive sharptooth catfish in the river. CapeNature faunal ecologists sampled seven sites in three days and detected healthy populations comprising several size classes for all three indigenous minnow species.

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8 Jun 2022
Celebrating the launch of the Berg Estuary as a Ramsar site

On Friday, 3 June 2022 the Western Cape Government and CapeNature, celebrated the launch of the Berg Estuary as a Ramsar site with the unveiling of an official Ramsar signboard located at the start of the estuary, ahead of World Environment Day.

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20 May 2022
Tag your friends to strike a pose with CapeNature & WIN!

Plan a road trip with family and friends to visit one of the six CapeNature reserves that have a newly installed outdoor selfie frame!

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19 May 2022
Join the Coolest Conservation Club This Biodiversity Day

The CapeNature Cubs Club is a digital platform for children between the ages of 4 and 13 years, where they can learn more about nature and how to protect it.

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10 May 2022
The Succulent Karoo Biome – the World's Only Arid Hotspot

It is not possible to talk about the biodiversity of the Western Cape Province without mentioning the smallest world-renowned floral kingdom, the Greater Cape Floristic Region. This floristic region consists of the Core Cape sub-region and the Extra Cape sub-region respectively, better known as the Fynbos Biome and the Succulent Karoo Biome.

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10 May 2022
CapeNature contributes to the City Nature Challenge 2022

The City Nature Challenge is an international BioBlitz type competition that took place between 29 April and 2 May this year. Twelve South African municipalities participated, with six of these being in the Western Cape including the City of Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Garden Route, Overstrand, Southern Overberg and West Coast.