BUFFALO, N.Y. — Scientists from the U.S. and South Africa are launching a campaign to map marine, freshwater, and terrestrial species and ecosystems in one of Earth’s biodiversity hotspots: the ...

"This is a broad collaboration between several organizations," says Adam Wilson, PhD, principal investigator and a biogeographer at the University at Buffalo. "The Greater Cape Floristic Region is ...

Scientists from the U.S. and South Africa are launching a campaign to map marine, freshwater, and terrestrial species and ecosystems in one of Earth’s biodiversity hotspots: the Greater Cape Floristic ...

Thirty percent of the plant genera in South Africa’s Cape Floristic Region are found nowhere else in the world. (Related: 32,000-Year-Old Plant Brought Back to Life—Oldest Yet) ...

The Franco Three Fountains Nature Reserve has been established as the first dedicated reserve for Cape vernal pools, marking ...

The World Heritage Centre and IUCN note that in January 2006, CapeNature, the Western Cape’s statutory conservation authority, and the Conservation Unit of the Botanical Society of South Africa have ...

A new orchid species has been discovered in the Kogelberg mountains of the Cape Floristic Region. Named Satyrium liltvedianum, the plant was discovered in November 2009 after a veld fire in the ...

CapeNature has raised the alarm on the growing threat of biodiversity crime in the Western Cape, revealing 12 new cases and 23 fines issued between April and June 2025 alone.

The Cape Floristic Region, or Cape Floral Kingdom (CFK), the smallest of the world's six recognised floral kingdoms, is an area of extraordinarily high diversity and endemism (roughly 70 percent ...

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The Franco Three Fountains Nature Reserve is declared a protected area, marking a significant conservation turning point as ...

José Luis León de la Luz, José Juan Pérez Navarro, Aurora Breceda, A Transitional Xerophytic Tropical Plant Community of the Cape Region, Baja California, Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 11, No. 4 ...