Tokai Park’s Eye in the Sky
Nicholas Coertze and Alanna Rebelo explain how FoTP's Sentinel-2 Web app allows us to monitor invasive-alien tree growth at Tokai Park. Part 2 of 2.
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.
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.
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.
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
Erica verticillata, from Extinction to Restoration
Legendary Fynbos plantsman and Kirstenbosch horticuturist Anthony Hitchcock writes of restoring Whorl Heath (Erica verticillata) to the wild.
Biodiversity: Quo Vadis?
The Western Cape is losing biodiversity at an alarming rate. How do we reverse a process threatening the global web of life?
