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CapeNature, the Western Cape provincial conservation authority, manages Driftsands Nature Reserve on the Cape Flats, and the eastern part of the Kogelberg Nature Reserve. A small area of the Hottentots-Holland Nature Reserve also falls within the city limits of Cape Town.
Grassy Park – Known for its wetlands and proximity to the Rondevlei Nature Reserve. Heideveld – A suburban area with strong ties to Cape Town's urban development plans. The Cape Flats remains a vibrant and dynamic region with ongoing efforts to address socio-economic challenges and preserve its rich heritage.
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.
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
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 ]
Rondebosch Common is a National Monument and an important conservation area for the critically endangered Cape Flats Sand Fynbos vegetation. This type of fynbos exists only in Cape Town, and has become critically endangered due to the urban development which has covered most of the Cape Flats.
Kenilworth Racecourse Conservation Area is a 52-hectare (130-acre) nature reserve, situated in the centre of Kenilworth Racecourse, in Cape Town, South Africa.Due to its location, it has been left undisturbed for more than 100 years, making it now the best preserved patch of “Cape Flats Sand Fynbos” in the world.
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 .