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Discover the Best Outdoor Filming and Photography Destinations With CapeNature
Whether you are a film production agency or a freelancer in need of multifaceted and spectacular natural settings, or an aspiring film student looking for the perfect playground to shoot your nature documentary CapeNature has the ultimate host of nature reserves to satisfy all your nature-inspired filming needs.

Book That Much Needed Break at 40% Discount This Winter
Beat the winter chill at Mvubu Bush Lodge. A rustic wood thatch accommodation nestled amongst the milkwood forest and Groenvlei lake, situated between Sedgefield and Knysna.

Comedians Commend CapeNature’s Conservation Efforts
On one of their rare breaks during the festival, the comedy troupe was whisked away by CapeNature for an outing to the entity’s award-winning Kogelberg Nature Reserve and the popular penguin colony in Betty’s Bay, Stony Point.

Junior hikers join Cubs Club
The event coincided with International Day for Biological Diversity – an annual calendar day set aside to bring awareness to the importance of biodiversity. This year’s theme, “Building a shared future for all life”, presented the perfect learning opportunity to guide the next generation on how they can build an inclusive future by caring for nature.

Western Cape Umbrella Fire Protection Association and Provincial Veld Fire Working Group meeting
It is through collaborations and excellent working relationships that we are collectively able to manage veld fires that may pose a threat in the Western Cape.

It’s a #CapeNatureWinter this 2022
CapeNature and the Rocklands partners have just kicked off their world-renowned winter bouldering season at Cederberg Wilderness. Every year, both seasoned and novice climbers flock to the Rocklands to test their skills on more than 1500 invigorating developed ‘problems’.

Thought-provoking insights at annual CapeNature Conservation Review
The online event was presented to more than 200 registered delegates. The Review provides an opportunity for CapeNature and partners to showcase “a year in review”. The apt theme of “Resilience is in our Nature” opened the opportunity to reflect on resilience thinking.
Freshwater fish of Meiringspoort
A freshwater fish survey was conducted in the poort following a report of the presence of alien and invasive sharptooth catfish in the river. CapeNature faunal ecologists sampled seven sites in three days and detected healthy populations comprising several size classes for all three indigenous minnow species.

Celebrating the launch of the Berg Estuary as a Ramsar site
On Friday, 3 June 2022 the Western Cape Government and CapeNature, celebrated the launch of the Berg Estuary as a Ramsar site with the unveiling of an official Ramsar signboard located at the start of the estuary, ahead of World Environment Day.

Tag your friends to strike a pose with CapeNature & WIN!
Plan a road trip with family and friends to visit one of the six CapeNature reserves that have a newly installed outdoor selfie frame!

Join the Coolest Conservation Club This Biodiversity Day
The CapeNature Cubs Club is a digital platform for children between the ages of 4 and 13 years, where they can learn more about nature and how to protect it.

The Succulent Karoo Biome – the World's Only Arid Hotspot
It is not possible to talk about the biodiversity of the Western Cape Province without mentioning the smallest world-renowned floral kingdom, the Greater Cape Floristic Region. This floristic region consists of the Core Cape sub-region and the Extra Cape sub-region respectively, better known as the Fynbos Biome and the Succulent Karoo Biome.