Lower Tokai Tuesday Alien Hack
2025-10-14 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-10-21 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-10-28 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-11-04 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-11-11 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-11-18 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-11-25 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-02 16:00 - 18:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) and 5 more dates | Lower Tokai Park, Orpen Road, Tokai, Cape Town, South Africa
You’re invited to join us for our weekly Tuesday Lower Tokai Alien Pull.
Join the regular gang by advising us at friendsoftokaipark@gmail.com of your noble and much-appreciated intent, don a pair of long pants, sturdy gloves, sturdier boots and a sensible hat, and bring a goodly amount of water along with you – and snacks if needed. If you have a pair of loppers or poppers to spare, your willingness to share them will greatly enhance your reputation among those of us reduced to pulling out pines with our teeth.
Thus forearmed, venture forth with us for a two-hour session of slaying dragons, Black Wattle and other alien invasives, before going home feeling righteously exercised and rejuvenated in soul, mind and body. We generally meet at one of the gates on Orpen Road and, to preclude you standing alone at an empty gate in inclement weather, please sign up to our mailing list or follow our Facebook Events page to receive notifications of any changes closer to the time.

Arboretum Group
2025-10-17 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-10-24 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-10-31 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-07 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-14 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-21 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-28 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-12-05 09:00 - 12:00 and 5 more dates | The Arboretum, Lister's Tea Room, Tokai, Cape Town, South Africa
You’re invited to join us in restoring our natural heritage as we root out alien vegetation from beneath the canopy of our historic Tokai Arboretum.
Join our dedicated Arboretum Group (wearing sturdy clothes and gloves accompanied by a bottle of water) at the Tokai Picnic Area car park before heading off to further restore this remarkable piece of history. Tools will be made available but, should you have poppers, loppers, a garden fork or chainsaw handy, you’re most welcome to bring it/them along.
Please note that, while all are most welcome, these activities involve physical exertion and we ask that you be mindful of your abilities and limitations in this regard. Owing to the close proximity of potentially dangerous tools and herbicides, we cannot accommodate children.
Should you be a first-time volunteer, please notify friendsoftokaipark@gmail.com that you will be joining us. We will then be able to contact you should inclement weather or other circumstances necessitate us changing times or cancelling individual hacks.
This activity falls under a permit system issued by SANParks and in accordance with the Protected Areas Act, Biodiversity Act and other regulations related to Protected Areas and heritage sites.

Great Southern Bioblitz 2025
2025-10-24 00:00 - 2025-10-27 23:30 | Lower Tokai Park, Orpen Road, Tokai, Cape Town, South Africa
The City of Cape Town, situated in the smallest plant Kingdom on Earth, is the biodiversity capital of the world.
From October 24–27, 2025, we will be participating in the Great Southern BioBlitz 2025, together with cities from across the Southern Hemisphere! All observations and IDs must be complete by 10 November to qualify.
You can visit the umbrella project here and a summary project here.
Click here to monitor southern Africa’s participation, here to see what we did last year, and here to see what we did in 2023.

FynbosLIFE Fair
2025-11-02 10:00 - 16:00 | FynbosLIFE, 7 Promenade Road, Muizenberg
Each spring FynbosLIFE hosts and organises the annual FynbosLIFE Fair, an event which has proven popular with Cape Town locals and visitors.
Held at the Zandvlei Lookout in Lakeside on the shores of beautiful Zandvlei, the FynbosLIFE Fair brings together the Cape community to celebrate the extraordinary biodiversity of the world-famous Fynbos Biome.
FynbosLIFE Fair visitors can look forward to art, film, talks, delicious drinks and eats and much more that celebrate the Cape Floristic Region (CFR) and highlight the importance of its conservation.

Volunteer Saturday!
2025-11-29 08:30 - 12:00 | Tokai Park Picnic Area Carpark, Tokai Park Braai and Picnic Area, Tokai Road, Tokai, Cape Town, South Africa
LAST DAY OF THE SEASON! LET’S TAKE ON THE ALIEN VEGETATION INVADERS!
Grab your hats, tools, and adventurous spirit — we’re heading back to Tokai this Saturday, 29 November, for one final round of alien vegetation busting!
A massive shout out to everyone who has helped us tackle Port Jackson and Long-leaf Wattle these past months. This Saturday is officially our LAST VOLUNTEER DAY OF THE SEASON before we break for summer (it gets way too hot and the ground turns to concrete!). Let’s make this final push our most impactful one yet!
This weekend we’re focusing ONLY on the Tokai site.
We’ll be working in the critically endangered Peninsula Granite Fynbos — a magical ecosystem that needs all the help it can get — pulling out Long-leaf Wattle and giving the local fynbos space to thrive again.
What to bring:
👉 Your grubber, small fork, or spade
👉 A hat (super important!)
👉 Plenty of water
👉 Friends, family, kids — all ages welcome! The more hands, the better!
📍 Location: Tokai
🕣 Time: 08:30
📍 Meet at: Tokai Park Braai & Picnic Area, Tokai Road
(Please arrive on time — we’ll drive to the site together.)
📞 Ray: 067 177 6225
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Come help us save the fynbos, get a little dirty, and wrap up the season with a final feel-good morning!

FoTP AGM 2025: Adam Welz on "A Future for Nature"
2025-12-10 19:30 - 21:30 | Cape Research Centre (CRC), Tokai Rd, Tokai Park, Cape Town, South Africa
Friends of Tokai Park Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Guest Speaker: Adam Welz, author The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown

With a foreword by Bill McKibben and lavish praise from Elizabeth Kolbert and David Wallace-Wells, Cape town-based writer and conservationist Adam Welz’s book is described in Publisher’s Weekly as “…a beautifully rendered tour of a natural world on the brink.”
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, The End of Eden, now published in paperback, offers a radical new kind of journalism that connects humans to nature and inspires us to defend the natural world.
Adam will be speaking about nature and climate change, suggesting new ways in which Capetonians can help save their extraordinary wild species from extinction. He will also have copies of his book for those interested in acquiring a copy.
Please register for the AGM to be held next Wednesday, 10 December 2025. This is a great opportunity to hear one of the leading authors in the field of biodiversity conservation and climate change. Don’t miss it!
Adam Welz is a naturalist, environmental writer, photographer and filmmaker. His work has appeared in the Guardian, Yale Environment 360, the Atlantic and many other publications worldwide. He’s a recipient of the Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism and lives in Cape Town.

Date: Wednesday 10 December 2025
Time: 19:30 – 21:30
Location: Cape Research Centre, Tokai Rd, Tokai Park, Cape Town
