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Protected area · Eastern Cape
Baviaanskloof Mega Reserve
Baviaanskloof Mega Reserve is a protected area in Eastern Cape, about 93 km north-east of Plettenberg Bay. It covers 5 000 km² — number 1 by size of the 9 Eastern Cape areas with a recorded size. Proclaimed or established in 1920.
5 000km² recorded size
1920year established
—elevation of the point
93 kmnorth-east of Plettenberg Bay
Facts
- Type
- Protected area
- Province
- Eastern Cape
- District
- Cacadu
- Local municipality
- Dr Beyers Naude
- Size
- 5 000 km² · 500 000 ha
- Rank by size
- 5 of 115 nationally · 1 in Eastern Cape
- Established
- 1920
- IUCN category
- Ia — strict nature reserve
- Part of
- Cape Floristic Kingdom
- Coordinates
- -33.5000, 24.1333
- Nearest large town
- Plettenberg Bay, 93 km north-east
- Wikipedia articles
- 6 languages
Sources: Wikidata Q2562112 · Natural Earth (province outline)
Nearby
- Plaatbos Nature ReserveForest reserve56 km south
- Tsitsikamma Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area62 km south
Tsitsikamma National ParkNational park62 km south- Huisklip Local Authority Nature ReserveNature reserve76 km south
- Elephant Sanctuary Plettenberg Bay 🐘Wildlife sanctuary79 km south-west
- Keurboomsrivier NatuurreservaatNature reserve86 km south-west
GBIF records within 30 km
Wildlife recorded around Baviaanskloof Mega Reserve
147 mammal and 30 969 bird occurrence records within 30 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
- Chacma BaboonPapio ursinus18
- Vervet MonkeyChlorocebus pygerythrus14
- BushbuckTragelaphus scriptus13
- Greater KuduTragelaphus strepsiceros13
- Bat-eared FoxOtocyon megalotis9
- SteenbokRaphicerus campestris7
- Rock HyraxProcavia capensis7
- Namaqua MicaelamysMicaelamys namaquensis6
- African BuffaloSyncerus caffer5
- Cape Gray MongooseGalerella pulverulenta5
- Red HartebeestAlcelaphus caama5
- MeerkatSuricata suricatta4
- Mountain ReedbuckRedunca fulvorufula4
- SpringbokAntidorcas marsupialis4
Birds
- Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola593
- Cape SparrowPasser melanurus564
- Cape CrowCorvus capensis532
- Familiar ChatOenanthe familiaris514
- Bar-throated ApalisApalis thoracica498
- Fiscal FlycatcherSigelus silens474
- Southern FiscalLanius collaris468
- NeddickyCisticola fulvicapilla462
- BokmakierieTelophorus zeylonus449
- Rock MartinPtyonoprogne fuligula448
- Acacia Pied BarbetTricholaema leucomelas435
- Karoo Scrub RobinErythropygia coryphoeus430
- Southern Masked WeaverPloceus velatus418
- Cape Robin-ChatCossypha caffra404
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.