Get to know one of the outstanding floral beauties of Verloren Valei. In South Africa, the winter rainfall area of the Western Cape is well-known for the richness and diversity of its flowering plants, which are well documented in the … Read more
The Friends help two of our guides improve their skills. Guides make a critical contribution to anyone’s enjoyment of a visit to a nature reserve. This is particularly true of a closed reserve like Verloren Valei, where visitors must be … Read more
Warren’s Blue is not the only butterfly species endemic to Verloren Valei. A visitor to Verloren Valei in early summer is likely to be greeted by hundreds if not thousands of brown butterflies flying across the grasslands and around the … Read more
The Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa (LepSoc) hosted a specialist field trip to Verloren Valei on 9 December 2017. The Friends of Verloren Valei invited LepSoc to host a butterfly field trip at Verloren Valei, Saturday, 9 December 2017. LepSoc members … Read more
SAFTC continues building up our database of game-bird numbers. Early on Saturday the 28th of August two groups of South African Field Trial Club (SAFTC) handlers set out with their pointers in drizzly mist to survey francolin populations on Patrysberg, … Read more
Phumzile Khoza has a real enthusiasm for conservation and is eager to build a close working relationship with the Friends of Verloren Valei. Phumzile took over the top job at Verloren Valei in October 2017. She comes to us from … Read more
While being one of the smaller species of butterfly found at Verloren Valei, Tite’s Copper is certainly one of the most striking. Tites’s Copper is another of South Africa’s high-altitude specialist butterflies that calls Verloren Valei home. The species has … Read more
Some headway has been made in protecting the three species of cranes present in the area, but the battle is far from won. Cranes are not ordinary birds. Around the world, their spectacular mating dances have made them important symbols: … Read more
Yellow is the dominant colour of the delayed, but long-anticipated, Verloren Valei spring—but the blue or purple of Disa baurii is well worth seeking out. The high grasslands shake off the winter cold late; spring in Verloren Valei tends to … Read more
The Table Mountain Beauty lives up to its name—and can frequently be seen at Verloren Valei. Some 90 butterfly species have been recorded at Verloren Valei, and one of the most striking must be the Table Mountain Beauty (Aeropetes tulbaghia). … Read more
