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Proteas growing outside Cape Town, South Africa. Johann Lourens/Getty Images

Cape Town’s wildflowers are a world treasure: six insights from a new checklist

Dian Spear, Stellenbosch University; Nicola van Wilgen-Bredenkamp, Stellenbosch University; Patricia Holmes, Stellenbosch University; Ronell R Klopper, University of Pretoria, and Tony Rebelo, South African National Biodiversity Institute

The latest checklist of Table Mountain flora shows that Cape Town is still a global hotspot for threatened flowering plants.
Cape Town’s Table Mountain Range, with a view of old plantation blocks on the granite slopes. Alien gum invasions are visible in the ravines. Johan Lourens/Getty Images

Lost fynbos seeds from underground ‘time capsules’ in South Africa can grow again – new study

Alanna Rebelo, Agricultural Research Council; Karen Joan Esler, Stellenbosch University; Patricia Holmes, Stellenbosch University, and Tony Rebelo, South African National Biodiversity Institute

Hundreds of ancient fynbos species could regrow and restore a former pine plantation on Cape Town’s Table Mountain, but only if the remaining pine trees are removed.
Fynbos, the biodiverse shrubland in Cape Town, is thought to have the third highest carbon stored per square metre for any biome in South Africa. It must be protected. Shutterstock

Cape Town’s climate strategy isn’t perfect, but every African city should have one

Alanna Rebelo, Stellenbosch University; Karen Joan Esler, Stellenbosch University; Michael Samways, Stellenbosch University; Patricia Holmes, Stellenbosch University, and Tony Rebelo, South African National Biodiversity Institute

Cape Town’s new climate strategy is a good start. But it falls short when it comes to nature.

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