The Cape Bird Club

Strandfontein     (Cape Flats Waste Water Treatment Works)

  Strandfontein is part of  The False Bay Ecology Park.

This is a working partnership with the City of Cape Town and the Cape Bird Club.


Greater Flamingos

 

Directions from Cape Town
 Background information 
 Twitchers at Strandfontein
 Birdlist for Strandfontein
 Bird Counts at Strandfontein   updated 12/06/2008
Guidelines – when visiting Strandfontein
 Layout of numbered pans
 Project – altering the level of water in the pans   updated 12/06/2008
Photo gallery


Blacksmith Lapwing juvenile

 

Projects on the go;

  • removal and control of invasive alien vegetation

  • monitoring and regulating the water levels in some of the pans

  • regular CWAC counts,

  • improvement on the access control to the area,

  • the establishment and protection of breeding colonies and islands

  • construction of two kingfisher breeding banks

  • monitoring of the stick islands

  • collection of basic weather data and various other projects to improve the biodiversity of the area,

  • taking local school children around as part of the environmental educational programme,

  • training employees at the Sewerage Works on matters environmental,

  • creating a database of the mammals, amphibians, birds, insects, plants, reptiles and rainfall.

                                                                                                                                            

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