FoTP, Author at Friends of Tokai Park

Roads crisscross the damaged but recovering fynbos at Tokai Park, dividing the park up into management blocks. Some blocks have been recently cleared of invasive alien trees by Working for Water (the brown/red blocks) and others have recovering fynbos (green-brown blocks), while others remain infested with wattle and gums (bright green blocks), the sinister legacy of plantation-forestry that has exited the region. Photo Byron-Mahieu van der Linde

The Road to Recovery

Nicholas Coertze explains how advanced remote sensing technologies will enable us to monitor invasive alien trees at Tokai Park. Part 1 of 2.

Post published:3 February, 2021
Post author:FoTP

City of Cape Town Draft Climate Change Strategy 2020

Cape Town's biodiverse Fynbos Biome ranks third among South African biomes for its capacity to store carbon (per square metre). It must be protected Photo Shutterstock

Cape Town’s imperfect climate strategy

We review and comment on the City of Cape Town's 2020 draft climate-change strategy – which ignores our unique biodiversity.

Post published:17 November, 2020
Post author:FoTP

The legend of the almost-extinct Tokai Cape Flats Silkypuff

A sprawling groundcover, the Cape Flats Silkypuff (Diastella proteoides) has charming puff-like clusters of small flowers formed by rosettes of pointed pink star-like, hairy bracts.

Post published:14 October, 2020
Post author:FoTP

Erica verticilllata (whorl heath), a critically endangered Cape Flats Sand Fynbos species still extinct in the wild, at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden. Photo: Wikimedia