Kirstenbosch by Brian J Huntley

Author:Brian J Huntley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2012-03-17T04:00:00+00:00

Today, like few other gardens, Kirstenbosch nestles within a vast protected area – the Table Mountain National Park, proclaimed in 1998. Together, they form part of the Cape Floristic Region World Heritage Site, inscribed by UNESCO’s World Heritage Commission in 2004. Extreme good fortune accounts for this situation – a sympathetic government and a generous public.

Kirstenbosch consisted of 134 hectares at establishment on 1 July 1913. Later that year, 30.9 hectares of the Klaasenbosch Estate were transferred to the Garden. In 1922, 299.8 hectares of mountain catchment (the Upper Kirstenbosch Nature Reserve) came under the Garden’s control. This land, reaching Maclear’s Beacon, the highest point on Table Mountain, includes the catchment of the three perennial streams that are the life-blood of Kirstenbosch. In 1961 a gift of 29.8 hectares was made to the Garden by Mrs I.G. Lubbert, while 4.5 hectares (Newland’s Heights) were added in 1992. Today Kirstenbosch comprises 199.2 hectares. The 299.8-hectare Upper Kirstenbosch Nature Reserve was transferred to the Table Mountain National Park in 1999, but continues to be managed as an integral part of the Garden.

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