CLICK HERE for Fauna & Flaura of the Greater Waterberg Area
This will take you to the Waterberg BioQuest/BioSoektog web site for Fauna, Flaura and Geology of the Waterberg Area with information and pictures.
Waterberg Bushveld Retreat & Moonriver Mountain Retreat is exactly a place where you can go to be alone, to get away from it all. A safe place of privacy. A place affording peace and quiet. It is remote and serene. It’s nature, wildness and wildlife will leave an indelible imprint on any visitor who loves nature. The nature and scope of this imprint will vary with the responsiveness of each person to being exposed to such natural beauty and diversity of Fauna & Flora. It has an aura of mystery, ambience and contrast. It is also a safe haven for many plant and animal species of which some are endemic to the Waterberg, others red listed and even a newly discovered plant species in the Waterberg.
Waterberg Bushveld Retreat is extremely rich in Fauna and Flora, magnificently representing the greater Waterberg Region. With over 70 tree species and close to 150 bird species listed at Waterberg Bushveld Retreat & Moonriver Mountain Retreat. We have compiled and are still compiling, as new species come to the front, a tree list with the help of Dr Warwick & Michèle Tarboton, as well as a bird list with the help of Cameron Meyer. We have also compiled a basic mammal list, of which you can find all below.
There are however, a few very special items we would like to highlight and present to the visitor, before getting to the lists:
Kalanchoe waterbergensis
A recently described species, endemic to the Waterberg (see van Jaarsveld, E.J. 2017. Kalanchoe waterbergensis, a new Kalanchoe species from the Waterberg, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Bradleya 2017 (35).)
Pictures by Dr Warwick Tarboton on Moonriver Mountain Retreat
Freylinia tropica blue honeybells, Waterberg bellbush blouheuningklokkies
Red-listed as "rare", it is found in the Waterberg and in the Chimanimani area in Zimbabwe.
Pictures Stephan Visser on Moonriver Mountain Retreat
Platysaurus minor Waterberg Flat Lizard Waterberg Platakkedis - Endemic to the Waterberg
Picture Cameron Meyer on Moonriver Mountain Retreat
Smaug breyeri Waterberg Girdled Lizard Waterberg Gordelakkedis
Endemic to the Waterberg
Podocarpus latifolius broad-leaved yellowwood opregte geelhout
Pronolagus randensis Jameson's red rock-rabbit Jameson se rooiklipkonyn
Rarely Encountered, but abundant at Moonriver Mountain Retreat even at the Lodge at night.
Pictures by Dr Warwick Tarboton on Moonriver Mountain Retreat
