Cederberg

The baboons posted sentries in the Cederberg mountains behind the orchard, and would shriek when he approached, alerting the others.

Orchard Venture Taps Baboons' Secret Peter Wonacott 2011

The baboons posted sentries in the Cederberg mountains behind the orchard, and would shriek when he approached, alerting the others.

Orchard Venture Taps Baboons' Secret Peter Wonacott 2011

The baboons posted sentries in the Cederberg mountains behind the orchard, and would shriek when he approached, alerting the others.

Orchard Venture Taps Baboons' Secret Peter Wonacott 2011

The Cederberg is exceptional in the numbers of endemic fish in the Oliphants river: three critically endangered, three endangered and two vulnerable species.

Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa 2009

Temperatures range from below freezing to above 40°C in the northern Cederberg and 45°C in the Swartberg.

Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa 2009

The Cederberg and Groot Winterhoek Wilderness Areas, Cape Peninsula National Park as an outlier, and the north half of the Boland Mountain Complex are in mountain ranges running north-south parallel to the Atlantic Ocean.

Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa 2009

Other reserve visitation varies between 58,500 in the Boland Mountain reserves to 18,000 a year in Cederberg and De Hoop and 1,130 in Boosmansbos.

Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa 2009

In general the fauna is less remarkable than the flora, except for a distinctive relict invertebrate fauna of an exceptionally high level of endemism which persists in upper forest streams, riverine forests and caves, especially in the Cape Peninsula National Park and the Cederberg and Groot Winterhoek mountains.

Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa 2009

The Cape Peninsula has 2285 species of plants, 90 being endemic to the peninsula, the Cederberg has 1778, including the local cedar Widdringtonia cedarbergensis.

Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa 2009

The fauna in the Swartberg and Cederberg protected areas reflects their location close to the fynbos-Karoo interface with species such as grysbok Raphicerus melanotis, grey rhebuck Pelea capreolus and klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus, steenbok Raphicerus campestris and grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, as well as karoo species not usually found in mountain fynbos such as springbok Antidorcas marsupialus.

Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa 2009