Dick Dent Bird Sanctuary is a reserve in Strand,

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

. This isolated bird sanctuary is located near the estuary of the ''

Lourens River Helderberg refers to a planning district of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality, the mountain after which it is named, a wine-producing area in the Western Cape province of South Africa, or a small census area in Somerset West. Or ...

''. It used to be the site of a waste water treatment works but is now protected within the

Lourens River Protected Natural Environment Lourens River Protected Natural Environment is a section of protected land along the Lourens River in the Helderberg region, South Africa. The Lourens River is about long, flowing from the Hottentots Holland Mountains into False Bay at Stran ...

. It is managed by the nearby

Helderberg Nature Reserve Helderberg Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in Somerset West, South Africa. This nature reserve is located on the southern slopes of the Helderberg mountains. Its 398 ha consist mostly of “Kogelberg Sandstone Fynbos” (a highly species-rich ...

with help from the ''Somerset West Bird Club'', and it is now a habitat for a great many water birds.

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{{Cape Town, natural Nature reserves in Cape Town Protected areas of the Western Cape

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