
Friends of Tokai Park
Cape Town, South Africa
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Friends of Tokai Park is a community organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa working on nature & wildlife conservation, environment & climate, heritage +1 more.
Friends of Tokai Park is a community-based, WESSA-affiliated Friends group and registered Public Benefit Organisation in Cape Town, South Africa. It works to restore and conserve the critically endangered Cape Flats Sand Fynbos and Peninsula Granite Fynbos at Tokai Park, a key biodiversity hotspot. Its volunteers carry out invasive alien clearing, restoration planting and fire-management support, and the group runs guided walks, guest talks, citizen science and community outreach. It also promotes the park as a recreational gateway to Table Mountain National Park and works to connect urban communities with local biodiversity, heritage and safety. The organisation is run by a volunteer committee and receives grant funding for restoration and education projects.
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Alien hacking (invasive alien clearing)
ViewNature & Wildlife conservation · South Africa
Regular volunteer events hand-pulling, lopping and felling invasive alien plants to restore Cape Flats Sand Fynbos at Tokai Park.
Tokai Biodiversity Gateway Project
Nature & Wildlife conservation · South Africa
Promotes Tokai Park as a recreational gateway to Table Mountain National Park while conserving its critically endangered fynbos and biodiversity corridor.
Guided walks and night walks
Environment & Climate · South Africa
Guided spring botanical, mushroom, reptile and night walks through Tokai Park for community education and recreation.
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SANParks, City of Cape Town, SANBI
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