Cape Floral Region Protected Areas Gallery

View from top of Table Mountain looking towards the Cape Peninsula showing Cape floral Fynbos and Restios. Table Mountain, Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa

A color photograph from the top of Table Mountain in Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town South Africa. The photograph shows the diverse cape floral fynbos including Restios (Cape Reeds) which survive the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Cape Weather. Fynbos meaning fine-leaved plants is a small belt of natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located on the Western Cape of South Africa. This area is predominantly winter rainfall coastal and mountainous areas with a Mediterranean climate. The fynbos ecoregion is within the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome. In fields related to biogeography, fynbos is known for its exceptional degree of biodiversity and endemism, consisting of about 80% (8, 500 fynbos) species of the Cape floral kingdom where nearly 6, 000 of them are endemic

© Mitchell Krog

Dramatic Sunset over Kogel Bay in the Western Cape Province of South Africa with the Kogelberg Mountain Range forming a Stunning Backdrop

Kogel Bay also known as False Bay or Cool Bay is the very large bay forming the eastern boundary of the Cape Peninsula or the Cape of Good Hope. Photograph take at Kogel Bay, Gordons Bay District, False Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Kogelberg Nature Reserve is considered by many to be the most beautiful of CapeNatures protected areas. Its exceptional diversity and quality of fynbos means it is also considered the heart of the Cape Floral Kingdom. Kogelberg was South Africas first registered biosphere reserve and it encompasses the entire coastal area from Gordons Bay to the Bot River vlei

© Mitchell Krog

Sunrise With the Zebras & Wildebeest, Kruger National Park, South Africa

Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers an area of 19, 485 square kilometres (7, 523 sq mi) in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa, and extends 360 kilometres (220 mi) from north to south and 65 kilometres (40 mi) from east to west. The administrative headquarters are in Skukuza. Areas of the park were first protected by the government of the South African Republic in 1898, and it became South Africa's first national park in 1926

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