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The loss of the natural grasslands in the Free State, Northern Province, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, and the replacement of the natural vegetation with wheat and dryland pastures in the wheat producing regions of the Swartland and Overberg in the Western Cape, changed the distribution and demographics of the Blue Crane population. Historically, Blue Cranes occurred mainly in the grassland biome along the eastern section of the country.
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The first is in the Overberg/Swartland regions of the Western Cape Province, the second is the central Karoo population (the southeastern region of the Northern Cape province and the western regions of the Eastern Cape province extending into the southern regions of the Free State), while the third is situated along the eastern section of the country and includes the southern parts of Mpumalanga, the northeastern Free State and parts of KwaZulu-Natal. Within South Africa there are three main Blue Crane strongholds. That means it’s abundant in limited areas of its range, but is rare in most areas of South Africa. It is the most range restricted of all the cranes in the world. The Blue Crane is a near-endemic to South Africa with a small isolated population of about 60-80 birds found around the Etosha Pans in Namibia and a few isolated birds in Botswana and Swaziland.