Blesbokspruit
- Country:
- South Africa
- Site number:
- 343
- Area:
- 1,858.0 ha
- Designation date:
- 02-10-1986
- Coordinates:
- 26°18'41"S 28°30'13"E
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Blesbokspruit. 02/10/86; Gauteng; 1,858 ha; 26°17'S 028°30'E. Added to the Montreux Record, 6 May 1996. Bird Sanctuary, Nature Reserve. One of the few permanent water bodies in the Transvaal region. Formed during the 1930 construction of road and pipeline embankments for the mining industry. Seasonally important for several species of locally migrant waterbirds and various notable mammals. Mining activities take place upstream. The site was placed on the Montreux Record in May 1996 in response to contamination by large quantities of polluted water discharged from adjacent mines. Ramsar site no. 343. Most recent RIS information: 1995.
Administrative region
Gauteng
National legal designation
- bird sanctuary
Last publication date:
01-01-1995
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Ramsar Information Sheet (RIS)
- ZA343RIS.pdf
- ZA343RISformer1995.pdf
- ZA343map.pdf