Clifford Dorse came to give the Exco and some interested members a talk on the City of Cape Town, Biodiversity Network progress. This was the last meeting of the year with an informal reportback by some of the Task Team leaders.

The implementing of the SANBI (South African National Biodiversity Institute) national requirement to meet the targets of the fynbos botanical biodiversity. The information is scary of how little survives in the Metropole and what is required to just conserve the national requirement. Most of the these soil types and plant types are unique to the planet.

They only occur in the western Cape.  The Cape Dune Strandveld type is under huge pressure for development for housing on the Cape Flats bordering False Bay.

Sharon and Ian McCallum arriving by peddallo.        Some of the enuthisiastic audience who came.

Gunter Kriel, one of Cherry Giljam's Zerilda Primary School ex-pupils, now a Junior Mayor, Council
member for Environment, came and gave us a brief overview of what he is doing.
Well done Gunter, you are one of the future custodians of our area.

Gunter Kriel.                                                Clifford receiveing his traditional ZVT
                                                                  present from David Muller.