The fertile soils beneath the renosterveld have seen the vegetation cleared for farmland over the past three centuries. Wild flowers in Renosterveld. Image by Juergen via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Earlier this year, Western Cape Local Government, Environmental Affairs and Development Planning MEC Anton Bredell declared the Haarwegskloof Renosterveld Reserve a protected area per the National ...

You've probably never heard of Haarwegskloof but it's the new jewel in the fynbos crown. The largest remaining connected stretch of Renosterveld, it has officially been declared a nature reserve.

The Renosterveld Ecosystem Management Plan lists the various types of renosterveld as the Matjiesfontein Shale Renosterveld (De Doorns to Gamka Poort, north of the Groot Swartberg and south of the ...

But Renosterveld makes up less than 10% of the landscape. However, we also found nests in other field types, which shows that this lark has adapted to nesting outside its natural habitat.

Farmers in the Overberg Wheatbelt who previously viewed renosterveld as wasteland are now conserving it for future generations. According to Dr Odette Curtis-Scott, it is estimated that “less ...

Renosterveld used to cover around 470,000 hectares (over a million acres) of the Overberg, but only around five percent of that figure is thought to be still intact. Losses are continuing.

Book overview - Field Guide to Renosterveld of the Overberg by Odette Curtis-Scott, Mike Goulding, Nick Helme, Rhoda McMaster, Sean Privett and Charles Stirton. January 31, 2021 Content supplied 2 ...

Emmeline N. Topp, Teja Tscharntke, Jacqueline Loos, Fire and landscape context shape plant and butterfly diversity in a South African shrubland, Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 28, No. 3, Fire ...

Phytochorological spectra of renosterveld communities were complex and dominated by Cape linking elements. Afromontane endemics predominated in Afromontane forests while the spectra of subtropical ...

It ensures that the Haarwegskloof Renosterveld Nature Reserve will continue conservation efforts, while allowing for scientific research, habitat restoration and low-impact eco-tourism activities.