facilitating planning

Across the Cape Floristic Region, lowland biodiversity is under threat and often very poorly conserved, since most of the protected areas are in mountainous regions.

Four of the C.A.P.E. task teams working on biodiversity conservation primarily in these lowland areas meet together on a regular basis in a "Critical Lowlands Cluster".

A Renosterveld conservation and management project focuses on research and conservation stewardship in critically endangered lowlands Renosterveld habitats in the Overberg.

The four task teams are involved with:













Biodiversity GIS Fynbos Forum Table Mountain FundSANBI Global Environment Facility Critical Ecosystem Biodiversity Partnership World Bank UNDP