African Wildlife and Environment Issue 72

The Eastern Cape encompasses amazingly diverse types of vegetation and hosts a number of national, provincial, local and private reserves that celebrate the region’s diversity. The vegetation ranges from the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany hotspot of endemism in the north east, Alpine vegetation in the north along the Southern Drakensberg escarpment, impenetrable Sub-Tropical Thicket in the south-west, large areas of the Karoo with its highly specialised vegetation types, and in the west, the eastern-most section of the Cape Floral Kingdom World Heritage Site. Celebrating the diversity of the EASTERN CAPE REGION

Mervyn Brouard and Jenny Gon

The Groendal Dam in the Baviaanskloof Wilderness Area and World Heritage site -

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