As 2025 gets underway, the FoL is celebrating the impact of our organisation & the Liesbeek River community with the publication of our 2024 Annual Report! As with every year that passes the Friends of the Liesbeek (FoL) by, 2024 was been another unique one. Cape Town experienced its highest...
This article is written by Jane Doherty from the Cape Bird Club (CBC). The Friends of the Liesbeek thank the CBC for allowing us to repost it here. The CBC embarked on a long-term bird survey of the Liesbeek River towards the end of 2020. The survey was coordinated by the Chair of the Conservation...
Sign our petition to fully fund the Liveable Urban Waterways (LUW) Programme in the City of Cape Town. The recent major budget cuts by the City of Cape Town to the LUW Programme will have devastating consequences. It will delay vital projects, designed to both protect our city's rivers, wetlands,...
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The Liesbeek river flows through many suburbs, including Rosebank, in its journey from the eastern slopes of Table Mountain to the confluence of the Black River in Observatory. The canalised part of the river, nearly 70% of the entire river, offers limited ecological services by way of improving...
The Friends of the Liesbeek are often mistaken as the authority wrt to the environmental management of the Liesbeek. Perhaps, it is an honor for this small donor funded organisation to be recognized as such having worked tirelessly for over 20 years looking after the Liesbeek and it's environs,...
This video forms part of a Living Lab series in an Orange Knowledge Project called Bridging the Waters. We explore how to transform an urban canal into a river. One of the labs involved the Liesbeek along Rosebank.
The 4th of October saw for the 11th Peninsula Paddle whereby a select few representatives from Future Water UCT, Khayelitsha Canoe Club, Sea The Bigger Picture, City of Cape Town and environmental advocates paddled from Muizenberg to Milnerton via Cape Town's vlei's, canals and waterways to raise...
This year's AGM was held on Zoom as per COVID-19 regulations, a first for FoL. We thank all those who attended as well as our very special guest speaker Dean Impson, A Cape Nature Senior Scientist on Indigenous fresh-water fish in the Berg River Catchment, with a focus on the Liesbeek's extant...
Maxxor.com have been hosting our website and email for a long long time. It all started off as a year free hosting that I won in a competition and donated to FOL. maxxor kept up the free hosting and support after that but have now moved their core business away from hosting. We are now hosted on a...
On Thursday the 5th of October, FoL Chair Phil McLean, affectionately known as FynbosPhil will be leading a river walk inside Paradise Park. Paradise Park is one of the pride and joys of the Liesbeek river corridor thanks to the Friends group of residents in the surrounding community who have...
On Friday the 7th of July, Friends of the Liesbeek will be hosting a walk & talk on the Liesbeek river in Paradise Park (click on link for directions) led by Phil McLean, FoL chairperson and invasive species specialist. The event is open to any interested members of the public but is...