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Protected area · Free State
Sneeuwberg Protected Environment
Sneeuwberg Protected Environment is a protected area in Free State (Phumelela municipality), about 33 km west of Newcastle. It covers 168 km² — number 1 by size of the 4 Free State areas with a recorded size. Proclaimed or established in 2016.
168km² recorded size
2016year established
—elevation of the point
33 kmwest of Newcastle
Facts
- Type
- Protected area
- Province
- Free State
- Local municipality
- Phumelela
- Size
- 168 km² · 16 766 ha
- Rank by size
- 38 of 115 nationally · 1 in Free State
- Established
- 2016
- Coordinates
- -27.6496, 29.6154
- Nearest large town
- Newcastle, 33 km west
Sources: Wikidata Q120635452 · WDPA 555570918 · Natural Earth (province outline)
Nearby
- Seekoeivlei Nature ReserveNature reserve4 km north-west
Chelmsford Nature ReserveNature reserve45 km south-east- Upper Wilge Protected EnvironmentProtected area65 km south
- Ingula Nature ReserveNature reserve · 81 km²68 km south
- Doctor Alden Lloyd Nature Conservation AreaNature reserve77 km south-east
Sterkfontein Dam Nature ReserveProtected area101 km south-west
GBIF records within 8 km
Wildlife recorded around Sneeuwberg Protected Environment
19 mammal and 30 458 bird occurrence records within 8 km of the reserve's point. Species with the most records first; the number is records, not animals.
Mammals
Birds
- Cape WagtailMotacilla capensis749
- Long-tailed WidowbirdEuplectes progne574
- African StonechatSaxicola torquatus571
- Grey Crowned CraneBalearica regulorum568
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca510
- Ant-eating ChatMyrmecocichla formicivora506
- Ring-necked DoveStreptopelia capicola499
- Hadada IbisBostrychia hagedash496
- Southern FiscalLanius collaris490
- Yellow-billed DuckAnas undulata479
- Blacksmith LapwingVanellus armatus466
- Pied StarlingLamprotornis bicolor440
- Red-knobbed CootFulica cristata436
- Cape CrowCorvus capensis436
Source: GBIF.org occurrence data (records within the radius; licences of the publishing datasets apply). All wildlife.