Background info on the City of Cape Town Nature Reserves - In and around the Zandvlei Nature Reserve

Greater Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve

Background information about the 24 - City of Cape Town Nature Reserves.

Many people think that the staff working at the Greater Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve are Cape Nature employees. Cape Nature is the provincial authority for provincial nature reserves. Zandvlei is a proclaimed local authority nature reserve, meaning it is a City of Cape Town property.

Your rates pay for the infrastructure and the annual running of all the 24 official City of Cape Town Nature Reserves within the Metropole. These reserves fall under the Environmental Resourse Management Department and the staff manage the biodiversity of these valuable assests for Cape Town, the Western Cape and South Africa. These Reserves contain some of the last remaining, threatened, natural botanical areas in the fynbos biome.

Let us not forget that the Fynbos Biome is a World Heritage Site.

North area		South Central area
1	Blaauberg Conservation Area	12	Edith Stephens Wetland Park
2	Mamre Nature Garden	13	Wolfgat Nature Reserve
3	Atlantis Dunefields & Silverstroom Conservation Areas	14	Macassar Dunes Conservation Area
4	Rietvlei Wetland Reserve	Central area
5	Zoarvlei Wetlands	15	Tygerberg Nature Reserve
South area		16	Durbanville Nature Reserve
6	Raapenberg Bird Sanctuary	17	Uitkamp Wetlands
7	Rondebosch Common	18	Braken Nature Reserve
8	Kenilworth Racecourse Conservation Area	East area
-	False Bay Ecology Park (FBEP)	19	Helderberg Nature Reserve
9	Rondevlei Nature Reserve (FBEP)	20	Silverboomkloof Nature Reserve
10	Zeekoevlei Nature Reserve (FBEP)	21	Lourens river Protected Natural Environments
-	Southern Birding area and Cape Flats Waste Water Works (FBEP)	22	Dick Dent Bird Sanctuary
-	Coastal Park Landfill (FBEP)	23	Harony Flats Nature Reserve
11	Greater Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve	24	Kogelberg Nature Reserve

Any improvements in capital and operating budgets are dependent on how strong the lobby is for environmental management - finance allocation. The proportion is determined from the 5 year IDP (Intergrated Development Policy) public and officials and political inputs.

The policy is open for annual public comment, on how "our rates should be spent".
The formal way is to let your Ward Councillor know your views. Daily and weekend newspapers advertise for public input when it is up for review. You are encouraged to submit a written reply.

Buy a copy of this quality, informative A5 book with 65 pages, in full colour on environmentally friendly paper from any ZVT Exco members. All about the Nature Reserves of Cape Town, for only R15.
You will be supporting the Nature Reserves.