Zandvlei Trust

The Greater Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve.

A working partnership with the City of Cape Town and The Zandvlei Trust.

The People who make it happen.

Joshua Gericke                          Mark Arendse                             Edward Moses
Manager.                                     Environ. Education Manager.          Foreman.

Isgaak Crombie                            Marlene Paetzold                     Joshua Grady
Weedharvester Operator.                Volunteer Student.                       Student.

Rose Mankayi
WESSA intern, Environmental Education.

Contact     Joshua Gericke    The Manager  -  Greater Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve.

Contact     Mark Arendse       The Manager  -  Environmental Education Centre.

Contact  a  Staff member

ph/fax/ans   021 701 7542

How to get to the Nature Reserve and the Environmental Education Centre.

Please make a note of times. The entrance gates are open. 

(click on the map to enlarge the photo)

The entrance gates are open.

Background information                        A tribute to Ms Basson by Cassy Sheasby.
about the 24 Nature Reserves
in the City of Cape Town.

1. In and around the Reserve.                                        updated 13/05/2013.

The new fence along the southern boundary of Grysbok Park.

Click to see whats happening in and around the Reserve.

2. Environmental Education Centre.                             updated 30/04/2013.                    

Mark taking the Village Heights children around the Reserve in December 2012.

Click to see more at the EE Centre.

Download this information booklet, for a Mini SASS course or community monitoring water quality.
It is part of the River Health for Southern Africa.

The Kingfisher in operation during December 2011.

December 2011 update. 

July 2011 update.

photograph by Margit van Heerden.                              photograph by Margit van Heerden. 

Checking the net contents for fish.               Recording the species and counts.

photograph by Margit van Heerden.                                              photograph by Margit van Heerden. 

Checking the length of the fish on the measure board.   A Sand Shark being measured.

Taariq's Fish project. 

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1. Fay's Karoo Robin project.                          1. Andrew's Kedstes Butterfly project.

2. Fay's  Waxberry (Morella Cordifolia)          2. Andrew's  Healing Plant Poster project 
   rehabilitation project.

3. Cassy's African Catfish project.

5 . History.

Click to read the Cape Bird Club's history at Zandvlei.

A bird count record from an April 1994 Zandvlei Trust Newsletter.

6 . Data Collection.    updated 23/04/2013.

photograph by Sandra Fowkes.

African Goshawk.

Do you know?

You can contribute to;

• the BIRP (Birds in Reserves Project) run by ADU (Animal Demographic Unit) (link above on icon) based at the University of Cape Town.
• By doing so you as a "citizen scientist" are helping to establish local and national species information and contribute to bird conservation.
• The process is fairly simple; volunteers go out to any PA (protected area - Greater Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve) and simply make a list of all the bird species observed. Data can be collected up to a maximum of seven days.

Please start at Zandvlei and record all the birds you see and submit them via the data gathering process. For more information go the the BIRP website, as above. Please download the BIRP instruction booklet which contains all the relevant information pertaining to this project.

The project is supported and endorsed by both the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) as well as BirdLife South Africa (BLSA). Click on the logos for the links.

Doug Harebottle at 021 650 2330 (w) or 082 736 3087 or e-mail Doug.Harebottle@uct.ac.za

Data

The following tables / records are published on a regular basis, so as to build up a central source of data. This will assist anyone who is interested in Zandvlei;

* No data available.
* Some data not available.

The (ZIMP) Zandvlei Inventory and Monitoring Programme started in November 2001.