Biodiversity in Cape Town.

Below are listed some facts about Biodiversity in Cape Town:

1.    Cape Town is one of only 3 cities in the world that ranks as an urban biodiversity hot spot.

2.    Many of the beautiful Cape villas found around Cape Town are located within the Cape Floral Kingdom, which is smallest but most diverse of the world’s 6 floral kingdoms.

3.    70% of the Cape Floral Kingdom’s plant species are found nowhere else the world, something to think about the next time you put a handful of protease in a vase to beautify your Cape villa.

4.    Cape Town is bordered by and overlaps the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve and the Cape West Coast Reserve.

5.     It is unusual for an entire national park (Table Mountain National Park) is situated within its boundaries.

6.    Cape Town has a very large number of endemic plant and animal species. This means that Cape Town is their only home in the world and therefore they attract any tourists or scientists who want to view them in their own habitat.

7.    Cape Town contains remnants of the ‘renosterveld’ vegetation which is one of the most endangered vegetation, not only in South Africa, but in the entire world.

8.    There are 190 endemic plant species.

9.    Cape Town is home to 27 amphibian species, including the Table Mountain Ghost Frog and the Cape Peninsula Moss Frog.

10.  Other species that are endemic to Cape Town are: 31 species of spiders and scorpions; 21 species of millipedes and centipedes; 17 species of beetles; 17 species of crustaceans; 12 species of earthworm’s and12 species of butterflies.

The wonderful thing about Cape Towns biodiversity is that it can be experienced from a variety of vacation spots, whether it be from one of the many ocean view houses Camps Bay has to offer or the luxury Cape Town villas for rent found in Constantia.