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.

Cassy Sheasby                           Mark Arendse                         Edward Moses
Manager                                      Environ. Education Manager       Foreman

Taariq Fakier                                 Isgaak Crombie                            Neville Wiliams
Student                                           Weedharvester Operator                  Assistant to the Foreman.

Margit van Heerden

Manager Muizenberg East Satellite Conservation Areas (MESCA).

Contact   Cassy Sheasby    The Manager  - Greater Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve.

Contact   Mark Arendse      The Manager  - Environmental Education Centre.

Contact   Margit van Heerden     The Manager - Muizenberg East Cluster Site.

Contact  a Staff member

ph/fax     021 701 7542

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

Please make a note in your diaries for these dates and times.     updated 25/01/2012.

 (click on the map to enlarge the photo)

The entrance gates are open.

Past Open Days.

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

A tribute to Ms Basson by Cassy Sheasby.

 Fishing at Zandvlei

2009 - 2010 Marine Recreational Activity - Information Brochure.

The brochure is by the Dept of Environmental Affairs.

If you plan to fish at Zandvlei, you will need to have a marine permit (available at the post office) and note that only lines and rods are allowed, netting with any type of net within the boundary of Greater Zandvlei Estuary Nature Reserve is prohibited. The bag sizes and daily limits are listed in the brochure.

It has plenty of other interesting information as well.

Download the brochure (109KB .pdf)

1. In and around the Reserve.       updated 25/01/2012.

photograph supplied by Cassy Sheasby.

Cassy Sheasby handing over a certificate to Leon Swarts - the District Manager of Muizenberg Parks Dept.

Click to see whats happening in and around the Reserve.

2. Environmental Education Centre.      updated 10/01/2012.

photograph supplied by Sharon Mccallum.

The Zerilda Park Enviro Club thank you to the Zandvlei Enviro Management and Zandvlei Trust.

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.    updated 08/12/2011

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.    new 22/12/2011.

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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 06/12/2011

photograph by Greg Morgan.

Little Bittern.

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.

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