The living tapestry
Ecology of Jakkalsfontein
Between the dunes and the coastal thicket, Jakkalsfontein Nature Reserve holds a dense cross-section of West Coast fynbos and strandveld life — from burrowing aardvarks and hunting caracals, to fish eagles working the vlei, to rare bulbs that flower for a few weeks a year. This is a browsable rebuild of the reserve's species checklists, originally published as three static PDFs.
Mammals
From burrowing aardvarks to the reserve’s elusive resident caracals.
39 species · 30 photographed
Birds
Resident fynbos specials and migratory waders across wetland and coast.
176 species · 167 photographed
Plants
Sandveld and strandveld fynbos — restios, ericas, vygies and rare bulbs.
325 species · 23 photographed
Why rebuild this?
The original ecology page linked out to three PDF checklists — plain text dumps with no photos, no search, and no way to browse on a phone. This demo keeps every species from those lists, adds licensed photographs where a confident match exists, and makes the whole thing searchable. The source PDFs are still linked from each category page for reference.