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Nature reserve · KwaZulu-Natal
Ingula Nature Reserve
Ingula Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in KwaZulu-Natal (Phumelela municipality), about 40 km north-west of Ladysmith. It covers 81,0 km² — number 12 by size of the 30 KwaZulu-Natal areas with a recorded size. Proclaimed or established in 2018.
81,0km² recorded size
2018year established
—elevation of the point
40 kmnorth-west of Ladysmith
Facts
- Type
- Nature reserve
- Province
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Local municipality
- Phumelela
- Size
- 81,0 km² · 8 097 ha
- Rank by size
- 49 of 115 nationally · 12 in KwaZulu-Natal
- Established
- 2018
- Coordinates
- -28.2570, 29.5590
- Nearest large town
- Ladysmith, 40 km north-west
Sources: Wikidata Q124283411 · WDPA 555570476 · Natural Earth (province outline)
Nearby
- Upper Wilge Protected EnvironmentProtected area16 km west
Chelmsford Nature ReserveNature reserve47 km north-east- Cheetah RidgeWildlife sanctuary48 km south-east
Sterkfontein Dam Nature ReserveProtected area54 km west- Doctor Alden Lloyd Nature Conservation AreaNature reserve65 km east
- Sneeuwberg Protected EnvironmentProtected area · 168 km²68 km north
GBIF records within 6 km
Wildlife recorded around Ingula Nature Reserve
18 mammal and 15 578 bird occurrence records within 6 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Birds
- Cape WagtailMotacilla capensis576
- Long-tailed WidowbirdEuplectes progne316
- Ant-eating ChatMyrmecocichla formicivora299
- African StonechatSaxicola torquatus297
- Levaillant's CisticolaCisticola tinniens290
- Cape CrowCorvus capensis269
- Pied StarlingLamprotornis bicolor253
- Wing-snapping CisticolaCisticola ayresii245
- Red-knobbed CootFulica cristata218
- African PipitAnthus cinnamomeus212
- Greater Striped SwallowCecropis cucullata208
- Southern Red BishopEuplectes orix207
- Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash206
- Zitting CisticolaCisticola juncidis204
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.