Kenneth Stainbank Nature Reserve

Kenneth Stainbank Nature Reserve is one of Durban's most delicate coastal forest areas, located on Coedmore Avenue next to Yellowwood Park. It is home to Yellowwood trees, nature walk trails and a 10 km mountain bike trail. The Nature Reserve is also famous for night drives and bird watching.

Kenneth Stainbank Nature Reserve houses wildlife, including zebras, bushbucks, dassies, Egyptian, slender or banded mongeese, blue, red and grey duikers, bushbabies, and genets, impalas, reedbucks, vervet monkeys, water monitors, and rock hyraxes. In addition, it is home to a diverse population of birds, including grey cuckoo shrike, tambourine dove and the white-eared barbet. Waterbirds such as the red-chested flufftail can be viewed near the dam area, whereas birds like Narina trogon, olive woodpecker, lemon dove and yellow-bellied greenbul can be seen near the wooded parts of the Reserve. Hidden within the Reserve is the Coedmore Castle, built-in 1885. It contains furniture from the nineteenth century, old family portraits and antique silverware. The Mary Stainbank Memorial Gallery is also located within the Reserve and includes a large body of her personal works and papers.