FynbosLIFE Fair
The annual FynbosLIFE Fair brings the Cape community together at Zandvlei in Spring to celebrate our fynbos's extraordinary biodiversity.
Great Southern Bioblitz 2025
From October 24–27, 2025, we, together with cities from across the Southern Hemisphere, will be participating in the Great Southern BioBlitz.
Friends of Tokai Park Spring Walk 2025
You’re invited to join our guided Spring Wildflower Walk through Lower Tokai Park, experiencing the splendour of our Cape Flats Sand Fynbos.
Cape Town’s Table Mountain Range, with a view of old plantation blocks on the granite slopes. Alien gum invasions are visible in the ravines. Photo Johan Lourens/Getty Images
Lost fynbos seed form ‘underground time capsules’
Our research in the Cape Floristic Region discovered that fynbos seed banks that have survived over a century of pine plantations are viable.
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.
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.
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
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.
April 2021's Devil's Peak wildfire caused catastrophic cultural heritage loss on spreading to the University of Cape Town Photo Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images
Why 2021’s Devil’s Peak fire was so devastating
Following 2021's Devil's Peak Fire, we ask what could and should have been done to avert catastrophic cultural heritage loss.
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.
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?
