Table Mountain Flora And Fauna. Three plant families give the fynbos its distinctive character protea. January 24 2018 by riaan comments off on hiking table mountain for more than just views 24 january 2018.
As of 2006 virtually all tahrs have been culled from table mountain thus clearing the way for the re introduction of the smaller klipspringer with which the tahr would have competed due to similar niches. Indeed there is the same number of plants on table mountain as in either the entire british isles or canada or new zealand. Spanning 30 000 hectares of the thin jagged cape peninsula the land that makes up the table mountain national park includes land owned by the south african national parks as well as sections of private land that are managed by south african.
The mountain s vegetation types form part of the cape floral region protected areas.
As of 2006 virtually all tahrs have been culled from table mountain thus clearing the way for the re introduction of the smaller klipspringer with which the tahr would have competed due to similar niches. Three plant families give the fynbos its distinctive character protea. These protected areas are a world heritage site and an estimated 2 200 species of plants are confined to table mountain more than exist in the whole of the united kingdom. Table mountain national park a look at the flora and fauna of south africa s best known landmark.