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Free State National Botanical Garden; Type: Botanical garden: Location: Bloemfontein: Coordinates: Area: 70 hectares (170 acres) Established: 1965; 59 years ago () Administered by: South African National Biodiversity Institute: Hiking trails: 4: Species: 400: Website: Free State National Botanical Garden - SANBI
Wonderboom Nature Reserve - City of Tshwane The Wonderboom Nature Reserve ( Afrikaans : Wonderboom-natuurreservaat ) is a 1 km², 200-hectare reserve that incorporates a section of the Magaliesberg range in the northern portion of the Pretoria metropole, South Africa .
The garden is wedged between Pretoria Road and Cussonia Avenue in Brummeria, in eastern Pretoria, Gauteng, and flanks a central rocky ridge that runs from east to west. The 76 hectares (0.76 km 2 ) garden was established in 1946, and of late hosts the headquarters of the South African National Biodiversity Institute.
SANBI was established on 1 September 2004 in terms of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, No 10 of 2004. [3] Previously, in 1989, the autonomous statutory National Botanical Institute (NBI) had been formed from the National Botanic Gardens and the Botanical Research Institute, which had been founded in the early 20th century to study and conserve the South African flora.
Groenkloof NR, City of Tshwane The Groenkloof Nature Reserve , located adjacent to the Fountains Valley at the southern entrance to Pretoria , was the first game sanctuary in Africa. The reserve of 600 ha is managed by the Department of Nature Conservation.
Golden Gate Highlands National Park is located in Free State, South Africa, near the Lesotho border.It covers an area of 340 km 2 (130 sq mi). [1] The park's most notable features are its golden, ochre, and orange-hued, deeply eroded sandstone cliffs and outcrops, [2] especially the Brandwag rock. [3]
The Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, previously known as the Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden, is a 300 hectares (3.0 km 2) botanical reserve in western Roodepoort near Johannesburg. It was formally established in 1982 as the Transvaal National Botanic Gardens, at which time it was the 14th of South Africa's National Botanical ...
The Bloemfontein municipality channelled off all black urbanisation to Thaba Nchu and Botshabelo, which were developed as a source of cheap labour for the city of Bloemfontein. A subsidised bus service was established, and Botshabelo was declared a decentralisation point, meaning it was designated to become an industrial development point to ...