Table Mountain is home to around 1 500 indigenous plant species within a 57km² area – that’s more than the entire United Kingdom of well over 240 000km²! Due to its staggeringly high biodiversity (“species richness” or the number of species occurring there), Table Mountain is a major tourist attraction and is rightfully regarded as …
Cape Town is a place that just has it all, don’t you think? From mountains to oceans, a bustling metropolitan centre and sleepy seaside villages, from beaches to rock faces and winding hiking trails…there’s always something to do, somewhere new to explore. And, the best part is: you can do all that exploration from the …
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Birdwatching is fast becoming a very popular pastime among nature lovers. Once thought to be exclusively the interest of old or upper-class men, it has now spread to millions of people around the world, especially in the last 40 years or so, creating a global community. Cape Town is a major epicentre for birders in …
Cape Town is one of the most biodiverse cities in the world, and is at the centre of the world’s smallest and richest plant kingdom. The Cape Floristic Region contains over 9000 plant species, and 70% of these are found nowhere else on earth (i.e. they’re endemic)! Table Mountain National Park alone has more recorded …
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If you are looking for the perfect anchors, or you want to meet up with local slackliners, you’ll want to visit some of Cape Town’s most popular slacklining spots. The Mother City’s abundance of tall trees and expansive lawns make it perfect for beginner to intermediate-length parklines. Our natural spaces in the city are impressively …
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It is incredibly difficult to make people take meaningful action on climate change and biodiversity loss, as has been made clear over the past 30 years. There are arguably two reasons for this: firstly, people often have a natural reluctance to engage with the implications of climate and ecological breakdown. In other words, very few …