Fabulous reads: Field guide to educate on SA’s Fynbos

Field Guide to Fynbos Fauna, Cliff and Suretha Dorse, Penguin Random House South Africa, ISBN: 9781775847397 

SOUTH Africa’s Fynbos Biome, which spans the country’s Western and Eastern Cape provinces, is one of the richest floras in the world.

In addition to its spectacular botanical diversity, the region is also famous for its remarkable variety of fauna.

Some species occur nowhere else – from the tiny Micro Frog to the brightly coloured Orange-breasted Sunbird and the large, strikingly marked Bontebok.

This concise field guide – the first its kind – covers more than 400 species in four animal groups: mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs.

The species accounts include key identification features and are paired with full-colour photographs and distribution maps.

This guide encompasses popular tourist destinations such as the Cape Peninsula, the Kogelberg, the Cederberg, the Agulhas Plain, the West Coast and Baviaanskloof.

Concise, all-in-one guide to the mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs of the Fynbos Biome, featuring over 400 species.

Clifford and Suretha Dorse are conservation biologists with a passion for the Fynbos Biome and its conservation. Their careers have been spent in the formal conservation sector where they have made significant contributions to the understanding and protection of this remarkable biome.

At present, they work at the City of Cape Town Environmental Management Department’s Biodiversity Management Branch, with Cliff leading the Conservation Services Unit and Suretha heading up programmes focusing on priority species and freshwater ecology.