When you have the urge to relieve yourself or litter in a nature reserve or wilderness area in the Western Cape, consider that:

Cape Nature Conservation manages most of the protected areas representing the Cape Floristic Region, the smallest and most threatened of the world’s six floral kingdoms. The Cape Floristic Region is one of the world’s “hottest biodiversity hotspots”: it contains 9 000 plant species, of which 6 000 are found nowhere else on earth. This plant kingdom is threatened by invasive plants, agriculture, urbanisation, pollution, poaching, soil erosion and unseasonal fires.

Large tracts of the Western Cape mountains, including privately-owned land, are proclaimed catchment areas. This means that they are managed as an important source of fresh water. Protected mountain catchments constitute only nine percent of the surface area of the Western Cape, yet they provide 60 percent of the water generated in the province.

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The Bwindi Imprenetrable National Park contains most of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest which is a large primeval forest in East Africa. The altitudes of the forest range from 1,160 to just over 2,600 meters. The forest has a nickname of “Place of Darkness” and is located in the south west of Uganda. Only a few kilometers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo border and about 25 kilometers north of the Virunga Volcanoes; this place is truly wild.

On the outskirts of the western side of the Great Rift Valley this forest is known for its highly endangered Mountain Gorillas – over half the worlds total population of Mountain Gorilla live here. The Bwindi Impenetrable National Park was established in 1991 and remains to be one of the most beautiful parks to date. It is one of the most biologically diverse areas on the planet and has been recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as a World Heritage Site because of its biological significance.

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If you are a novice in African safaris, you probably might find yourself overwhelmed with the array of choices that will arrest your sight. If you have already gone there, you might as well know how to plan a tour so as to delve into the deeper wonders of the African safaris. Remember, some solitary locations are far more marvelous than those, which already became traditional destinations.
Go. Plan a different route. Seek places that you haven’t scoured before and experience wonder that you should not miss.

You can’t off course explore the whole of African safaris on a few days of trip. There simply are too many sights to feed your spirit and too many places where you may see the real and seldomly seen creations.

This is what an African safari may look like-

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