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Local – South African
Animals
Walking with Baboons.
An
experience of a lifetime walking with the remaining Chacma Baboons on the Cape
Peninsula.
Whale
hunting.
Fill in this
World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) petition, to help stop
whaling.
Bats
The Cape Town
Bat interest group.
Join this group and help with important research.
Birds
Animal
Demography Unit (University of Cape Town)
The scientists who record all there is to know about birds and more.
Kestrels
An additional raptor site on kestrels based in the Western Cape, by Anthony van Zyl.
Owls
and Owl boxes.
Do you need an owl box? Here is your solution. Promoting natural predators
instead of poisons.
The Western Cape Raptor Research Programme
Andrew Jenkins and the Research Team
doing exciting work, also need your help.
The Cape Bird Club
Established in 1948 and the Western Cape branch of SA BirdLife.
Rondevlei
Nature Reserve
A nearby sister Nature Reserve with excellent educational facilities.
The
World of Birds
Visit this unique bird and monkey park in Hout Bay.
B & B
Sonstraal – Guest House.
A beautiful old 3 -star guest house opposite the mouth of the Zandvlei
estuary in Muizenberg.
Books, DVD's
Netbooks
See
Craig Thom's large
selection Natural History and Bird books, also of DVD's, order online.
Cape Town
Maps of the Western Cape – by local resident cartographer
Buy your maps of the Western Cape, online,
from Peter Slingsby.
Places of interest
in Cape Town – Maps
If you plan to visit Cape Town, need directions and places to see, visit
this site.
Views
around Cape Town
See the moods and views of the 'fairest Cape'.
Images
of Cape Town
Another site to see more of Cape Town.
The False Bay Ecology Park
This area has huge local and tourist recreation and education potential. It is a City and
combined local NGO's imitative. Also it will create a sustainable natural and man made
Conservation area, within close travelling distance for the residents of the Cape Flats.
Hout
Bay Heritage Trust
See the wonderful Conservation and Restoration projects being tackled in
Hout Bay.
Muizenberg
– the gateway to False Bay
All the local information about what to
do and see in the town.
Environmental Education
West Coast Field Studies Centre.
Frank Wygold's centre for a variety
of Adult and different age group children programmes.
Jungle
Theatre Company, Muizenberg.
See these dynamic, performing people –
educating, teaching, entertaining the local community about the importance of
looking after the natural environment.
CTEEP
(Cape Town Environmental Education Programme)
Estuaries
C.A.P.E
Estuaries Programme
(EMP) Estuarine Management Plans for the Cape Floristic Region.
Friends Groups (local)
Friends of BCA (Blouberg Conservation Area)
See what the friends do
on this side of Cape Town.
GEESE
(Glencairn Education & Evironment Support Enthusiats)
See what these "enthusiasts" are doing at Glencairn at the Els River and their
wetland.
Friends of the Helderberg Nature Reserve
See the fantastic work they do to help
to maintain the City Nature Reserve.
Friends of the Liesbeeck River
This is a long river running through
a number urban suburbs and environments.
Friends of Meadowridge
Common
If you live in the area, join this
group to help look after this valuable indigenous vegetation.
Friends
of Die Oog
This group look after a unique wetland in Cape Town.
Friends of Rietvlei (Milnerton / Tableview)
The Friends of Rietvlei and what they do.
WESSA
(Western Cape)
The local and Western Cape, Wild Life and Environmental Society of South Africa.
Friends
of Zeekoevlei and Rondevlei
This is a large
area and they help the managers of these City Nature Reserves.
Frogs
The Frog Atlas Project
This is co ordinated from the Universiy of Cape Town.
Leopard Toad website
Ann Stewarts website for information about the southern Penisula Western Leopard Toads.
Glass craft
Stained and other hand crafted glasswork
Glasscraft in the Main Road, Lakeside
is a landmark, and can offer you crafted colourful doors, windows and other glass items.
Indigenous Fynbos
Grow indigenous Fynbos from seed stock
Use Julie and Charles Oertel starter packs to grow your own Fynbos
garden at home.
Insects
The
SA Museum Cape Town
The online resources index has many subjects of interest.
Municipal
The
City of Cape Town
This is the municipal site for managing the City of Cape Town.
Nature Conservation
Cape
Nature Conservation
The activities of this body of dedicated people.
Fynbos
Forum
Read all the
papers presented at the 2009 annual forum meeting.
South
African National Parks
This new body looks after the Table Mountain National Park.
The
Nature Conservation Corporation
This Company offers many varied services
in Nature Conservation in RSA.
Peninsula Canoe Club at
Zandvlei
Peninsula Canoe Club
This long established Club has produced
many canoe racing champions at Zandvlei.
Recycling
Freecycle Cape Town
Stop filling up the refuse sites unnecessarily. Recycle your unwanted things any item big or small, everything has to be 100% free - no swapping, bartering, selling and no strings attached.
Scarborough
Conservation Group
See the articles on recycling and
more, of this local Conservation orientated Community.
Reptiles
Reptilepets
A commercial company into reptiles. Good
supporting information on reptiles available.
The
Cape Reptile Club
With a Committee, Constitution and membership. They are interested in all
reptiles.
Cape
Reptile Institute
They offer reptile research, education and
scientific services in RSA.
Sea Scouts at Zandvlei
Scout Base at Zandvlei
The activities and facilities the Boy and Girl Scouting
offers at Zandvlei.
Tide tables
South
African Tidal Display Service
Here is an updated easy to use site, for all your tidal
information.
Weather Station (local information)
MyWeather
This website, gives detailed local weather information. Have a look.
It is the Climate Systems Analysis Group at UCT
Western Cape Wetlands Forum
The
Forum
This group of people from national,
provincial and local government together with scientists, academics,
consultants and civil society interest groups, work towards careing for the wetlands of the
Western Cape.
Wind Turbines
Wind
power
The wind is free so why not use it. Build your
own wind charger. Be inspired and follow the plans and progress of a local turbine builder
Peter Becker.
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