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Friends of Tokai Park

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa • 0 Employees
Environmental Services

The Friends of Tokai Park aim to assist in the management of Tokai Park and promote its use and conservation. Our goal is to conserve our natural plant and animal life at Tokai Park while promoting the park as a recreational gateway to our greatest natural asset and internationally-renowned World Heritage Site, Table Mountain National Park.We envisage a park reflecting the symbiotic relationship between the plants and animals that call Tokai Park home and members of the diverse community that use it for many and varied types of recreation, including walking, running, cycling, dog-walking and/or horse riding.Tokai Park is to Cape Town what the Amazon is to the world – a biodiverse, species-rich ecosystem threatened by past practices, future development and ever-present invasive alien plants.The restoration and conservation of biodiversity is inclusive, not exclusive, and is entirely compatible with our heritage and recreational activities. In a world subject to the non-linear positive feedback loops of increasingly evident anthropogenic climate disruption, all species have inherent value and extinction is unacceptable.Conservation is essential. To not restore and conserve an existing and viable ecosystem to health would make us complicit in the ongoing global destruction of the biosphere on which all life depends.Home to one of the last remnants of Fynbos on Cape Town's lowlands, Tokai Park's location enables us to connect the wildlife of the mountain to that of the flats, creating a viable biodiversity corridor – bring nature to the city rather than the city to nature. By conserving Tokai Park in a manner benefitting all, we will contribute significantly to conserving the natural splendor, cultural heritage, recreational needs and safety of all within the greater Cape Town Metropole.