An Open Letter to SANParks’ Managing Executives
ChatGPT, the Internet's new BFF, addresses an Open Letter to SANParks' Managing Executives, urging the clear felling of pine at Tokai Park.
The Large-stipule Fountainbush (Psoralea fascicularis) is listed as endangered on the Red List of South African Plants. Photo Peter Swart / iNaturalist
Tokai Park’s new Fountainbush
Botanists discover a Large-stipule Fountainbush (Psoralea fascicularis) population not previously recorded at Tokai Park.
The FOTP IUCN SOS interns enjoy a walk at Lower Tokai Park, South Africa.
FoTP interns in action
FoTP interns Oliver Angus, Thotloetso Litheko and Perfect Dhlamini report on their restoration of Western Leopard Toad habitat at Tokai Park.
Alien trees threaten biodiversity, increase the risk of wildfires and also guzzle water Image Cape Winelands Biosphere Reserve
How much water does alien clearing save?
A new study modelling the streamflows of four small mountain catchments above some of Cape Town's major dams gives us the answer.
Cape Town and its environs Image NASA Earth Observatory
Scientists comment on City’s Urban Forest Policy
Alanna Rebelo introduces scientists comments on the City of Cape Town's draft Urban Forest Policy.
Scientists’ involvement in media reporting on fire leads to more nuanced and balanced messages Image Cathy Withers-Clarke via Shutterstock
SA media treat fire as a foe
Scientists speak out about SA media treating fire as a foe – incinerating its ecosystem benefits in a blaze of misinformation.
Psoralea fascicularis Image Jeremy Gilmore
Psoralea fascicularis: A Restoration Project
Jeremy Gilmore presents his 2021 Grade 12 Project – the restoration of Psoralea fascicularis (Large-stipule Fountainbush) at Tokai greenbelts.
Alien pine trees, which use substantially more water than the native vegetation of the Cape Mountains, reduce river flows to dams that supply the city’s water Image Martin Kleynhans
Alien clearing boosts City’s climate resilience
How does catchment restoration (revegetation, wetland restoration, gully rehabilitation and alien clearing) increase climate resilience?
Western Leopard Toad Image Marius Burger
Restoring our Western Leopard Toad (EN) habitat
Leila Mitrani and Alanna Rebelo unveil a programme restoring Western Leopard Toad (EN) habitat to Tokai Park
The colour of green Jonkershoek Nature Reserve Image Santie Gouws
10-million trees? A letter to the Minister
Alanna Rebelo debunks DFFE Minister Barbara Creecy's 10-Million Trees Programme
Original image source Constantiaberg Bulletin
Shady proposition elicits illuminating responses
Professors William Bond and Tony Rebelo repudiate DFFE's 10-million Tree Programme
The area surrounding Tokai Park used to be a commercial pine plantation, but after the exit of forestry from the Western Cape, the last pine trees are being harvested and the area is being restored to indigenous fynbos vegetation.
Science-based restoration crucial to Cape’s lowland fynbos
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos and Peninsula Granite Fynbos need science-based restoration
Protea repens reseeder
Tokai Park and the Myth of Sustainable Development
"For as long as our footprint remains 1.7 Earths, we have no sustainable future," writes Tony Rebelo, tackling "sustainable development".
Plantations and fynbos at Tokai Park.
Personal reflections on the TCMF Review
Alanna Rebelo asks that we set our differences aside to save our critically endangered Fynbos species at Tokai Park.
Tokai Shroom Hunt Autumn 2021
The Tokai Arboretum Shroom Hunt – Autumn 2021
Gaby Meyer leads a well-attended shroom hunt through the Tokai Arboretum following decent autumn rains. Tony Rebelo fills us in.
