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An Open Letter to SANParks’ Managing Executives
ChatGPT, the Internet’s new BFF, addresses an Open Letter to SANParks’ Managing Executives, urging the clear felling of pine at Tokai Park.
Why 2021’s Devil’s Peak fire was so devastating
Following 2021’s Devil’s Peak Fire, The Conversation asks what could and should have been done to avert catastrophic cultural heritage loss.
The trillion-tree planting scam
Billion and trillion-tree planting campaigns profit only greenwashing financiers and academics fronting stranded-asset management strategies.
Biodiversity: Quo vadis?
We are losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate in the Western Cape. How do we reverse a process that threatens the global web of life?
Parkscape’s Questionable Judgement
Forests, plantations, call them what you will, they have one fundamental in common: trees. And it is among the trees, the whispering breeze overhead, and the dappled light at my feet that I recharge myself and connect with nature. It doesn’t bother me that the trees are pines; the fact […]
SANParks and CapeNature – The Silence of the Damned?
Over the past two years, SANParks has put itself in the firing line of Cape Town’s most emotionally manipulative community organisations, Parkscape and Baboon Matters Trust (BMT).
Parkscape Running on Empty in Tokai
Parkscape is not interested in securing your safety from fire or crime. It cares little whether you get to enjoy trees or fynbos in our National Park. It speaks for those who see property prices in the greater Constantia Valley tanking as the area becomes divorced from its 18-20th Century fantasy of a shaded boreal “forest” in the heart of the Cape Floral Region and is forced to join other Cape Town suburbs on the Cape Flats, where our Sand Fynbos is of infinitely greater value to future generations than the prices fetched for the houses of a few.
Tokai’s Spurned Lovers Doth Protest Too Much
Tokai’s upmarket suburban guerillas take to urbane toyi-toying, svelte service-delivery protest and high-priced court interdicts in the name of conservation, biodiversity and an irrational love of the lowly, highly flammable Tokai Plantation’s pine trees. Confusing? You betcha.
SANParks Moves to Save Tokai
“We welcome public involvement in projects and initiatives hosted by our citizen volunteers in the Friends Groups, Honorary Rangers and Fire-fighting teams…and we invite the public to join these groups to assist us in conserving our natural heritage.” South African National Parks (SANParks) 30 August 2016 Eighteen months have passed […]
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Meet SANParks’ new TCIP…*
Same as SANParks’ old TCIP. With apologies to Pete Townsend of The Who and Won’t Get Fooled Again (1971).
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