by fol | Sep 29, 2011
Birding Big Day, BirdLife South Africa’s major annual fund raising event, takes place on Saturday 26 November this year. In addition to the traditional categories (open, handicap and community) and the SABAP2 category for the avid committed birders/atlasers,...
by fol | Sep 12, 2011
International Coastal Cleanup is on Saturday 17th September. FOL have participated for several years as a result of an article in the newspaper stating that the litter on the beaches of Robben Island came from the Liesbeek. We have usually done a cleanup on Lagoon... by fol | Sep 5, 2011
The Friends of the Black and Vygekraal Rivers are having a public meeting on Tuesday 13 September 2011, at the Rondebosch Golf Club House, Golf Course Road, Sybrand Park, at 19h00. For more information contact Jonathan Hobday 0828965529 or Sonja Pithey... by fol | Jun 15, 2011
In 2008 the City of Cape Town initiated a process to prepare a Spatial Development Framework for Cape Town as well as 8 integrated Spatial Development Plans / Environmental Management Frameworks (District Plans) – one for each of the planning districts of the...
by fol | May 27, 2011
Professor Neil Armitage’s talk on SUDS (Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems) raised so many important points that I want to expand on the topic. In the UK much research has been done, and one very interesting report available on the Internet is the CIRIA report on...