Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens

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Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden near Cape Town, South Africa

making them - and the Kirstenbosch gardens - prime targets for cycad poachers. The plants stolen from the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden last month included 22 critically endangered Albany cycads. (Adam Harrower) They are 340-million years old In two separate incidents in August, thieves stole 24 cycads worth an estimated 700,000 rand (£40,000) from the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, South Africa. Twenty-two of them were on the critically endangered list. Experts say the Kirstenbosch is part of the South Africa's national botanical garden system and unique in that it preserves and displays almost exclusively indigenous plants. The coastal edges of South Africa form the Cape Floristic Region, one of the world's six The affectionately named “Boomslang” or Tree Canopy Walkway at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is now open to the public and offers visitors an unusual and unique view from forest floor to treetops - yet another reason to visit the Garden. The South African Post Office has launched commemorative postage stamps as part of the 100 year celebrations of the kirstenbosch botanical gardens in the Cape Peninsula. The Post Office says the stamps depict images of 10 different species of flowers. Cape Town – The kirstenbosch botanical gardens in Cape Town has been given a big lift. A new walkway has been built, and it gives you a real bird's eye of what's below. Source: CAPE TOWN - The kirstenbosch botanical gardens in Cape Town has been given a .

CAPE TOWN – The Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in Cape Town has been given a big lift. A new walkway has been built, and it gives you a real bird’s eye of what’s below. The new Tree Canopy Walkway, known as the “Boomslang”, is 300 metres long. Kirstenbosch prides itself on being the most beautiful “Founded in 1913, this is the first national botanical garden established for the express purpose of local flora conservation, and even now, almost all the species therein are indigenous. Cape Town - Most people will give any boomslang they happen to encounter a very wide berth, but future visitors to Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden will probably be making a beeline for one of them. Because this particular “boomslang” is not the shy but .



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