The Friends of the Liesbeek has published our 2025 Impact Report. Click the link to download the report. The Report highlights the key events during the 2025 calendar year. Sections in the report cover the activities of the Liesbeek Maintenance Project, the Liesbeek Learning Project, community...
The Friends of the Liesbeek (FoL) is hosting its Annual General Meeting (AGM) this year on Thursday, 28th August. The AGM will be hosted at the APEX Group Auditorium - which is located at River Park, 1 Gloucester Road, Mowbray, Cape Town, 7700 (for a google map, click here). The event will...
The Friends of the Liesbeek (FoL) is excited to announce the commencement of our longstanding “Fynbos Snake” garden project planned for Observatory. This project is happening in partnership with the City of Cape Town and is the result of a ward allocation received in response a project that the...
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...