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.
Hidden Veldrush (Schoenus inconspicuus) Photo Douglas Euston-Brown
New species discovered at Tokai Park
A new species of Sedge, the Hidden Veldrush (Schoenus inconspicuus), has been described from Lower Tokai Park.
Fighting invasives in the age of COVID-19: The Paintball Hackers go to work
The Paintball Hacks – A July Offensive
On Tuesday 30 June we finished Block A7B, the Paintball Block. Our first month of Covid19 hacks is completed. Many thanks to all who helped.
The Doctor is in — Friends of Tokai Park Chair and iNaturalist Coordinator Tony Rebelo gets down and dirty in unusual circumstances during the City Nature Challenge 2020
Appreciating Nature in Lockdown
A COVID lockdown and the fifth iNaturalist City Nature Challenge teach six African cities that environmental awareness begins at home.
The Paintball Hackers in search of invasive prey
Paintball Hackers – The Autumn-Winter Report
This autumn-winter (interrupted by the Covid19 Lockdown) our focus has been on the latest restoration block, A7b, aka the Paintball Block.
Jacques van der Merwe (centre) from the City of Cape Town teaches young scholars about wildlife and iNaturalist during the 2019 Cape Town City Nature Challenge Photo: Ismail Ebrahim
The Amazing Nature Race
Ready, steady … bioblitz! Will you help Cape Town defend its title as the winner of the 2019 global City Nature Challenge?
Fynbos flair finds festive home
The Fynbos Festival saw nurseries, artists, distillers and 14 conservation organisations bring fynbos flair to Tokai Park this past Sunday.
Classes in the Park – Nature Week a hit with Tokai-area learners
Nature Week saw some 600 learners from ten schools spend a thoroughly enjoyable day learning about our indigenous Fynbos at Lower Tokai Park.
Learning, Naturally!
Nature Week offers an opportunity for 600 Cape Town learners to align their curriculum with the biodiversity of Tokai Park’s Fynbos.
Peninsula Granite Fynbos – A Restoration Story II
Table Mountain National Park's Upper Tokai Park represents the most extensive area where Peninsula Granite Fynbos can be restored.
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos – A Restoration Story I
The Tokai Park section of Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) contains one of the largest areas available to restore Cape flats Sand Fynbos.
