The Agulhas National Park was established only a few years ago to consolidate a core area of lowland fynbos and specifically lowland fynbos on limestone soils. This limestone soil fynbos vegetation type is mainly restricted to the Southern Overberg and is considered endangered.
From a small piece of land around Cape Agulhas a few years ago, the park has now expanded and has crossed the borders of the Danger Point Peninsula area with the purchase of the lands of the historical and grand farmstead of Ratel River.
The Agulhas Natonal Park is at the core of the Agulhas Biodiversity Inititiative (ABI). ABI's intention is to include -through private-public partnership- numerous privately owned farms and reserves to create a mega-reserve of heartlands, corridors and refugias next to working farms and settlements.
At the end of the line of a very ambitious program is the game-fence that should stretch from Stanford to De Hoop. The whole of the Southern-most landmass of Africa will in this manner become a natural area again, in which the human settlements and working farms will be fenced in and the bulk of the land will be given to animals to roam free in a landscape of pristine indigenous nature.
Adventure and Outdoor Activities (Planned tourist activities) at the Agulhas Natonal Park are several nature trails and a unique trail to traverse the southern-most tip of Africa’ an environmental education centre and a world class museum and interpretative centre.
