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Energy, Environment & Spatial Planning Environmental ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT & SPATIAL PLANNING ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENT BRANCH Charline Mc Kie Biodiversity Area Manager: The Dassenberg Coastal Catchment Partnership City Sector (DCCP) North Region Tel no: 021 444 7687 Email: [email protected] Table of Contents Page 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................................................................. 2 TBNR Zoarvlei Conservation Area prescribed burn TBNR Integrated Bird Census, assistance provided DCCP brush pile burns 2. HIGHLIGHTS & CHALLENGES....................................................................................................................................... 3 Snake Awareness Day, photographs by DCCP staff, Article: Impact24 Grysbok Capture, photographs by North Region staff Level 3 EMI accreditation Klein Dassenberg fence and operational storage 3. CONSERVATION PLANNING ...................................................................................................................................... 4 City of Cape Town | DCCP | Quarterly Report |1 April to 30 June 2015 Proclamation Protected Area Advisory Committees 4. FLORA ........................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Invasive Flora Management, photographs by DCCP staff Table with invasive clearing summary Indigenous Flora Management 5. FAUNA .......................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Indigenous Fauna Management Invasive/People and Animal Conflict Summary of Faunal and Floral sightings table 6. SOIL ............................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Klein Dassenberg project, photographs by DCCP staff 7. WATER .......................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Table with Monthly rainfall statistics 8. FIRE ............................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Summary of controlled and uncontrolled fires, photographs by North Region and DCCP staff 9. PEOPLE, TOURISM & EDUCATION ............................................................................................................................... 10 Environmental Education statistics Special Environmental Day Programmes, photographs by DCCP staff Exhibitions and special events External and Internal meetings Staff, Regional and Branch meetings Visitor numbers and income 10. STAFF MATTERS ............................................................................................................................................................. 13 Staff Establishment Staff training Occupational Health and Safety 11. LAW ENFORCEMENT.................................................................................................................................................... 14 WANR, photographs by DCCP staff Klein Dassenberg illegal flora harvesting 12. INFRASTRUCTURE & EQUIPMENT ................................................................................................................................. 16 Repairs and Maintenance 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This quarterly report covers all the activities for the period from 1 April – 30 June 2015 within the Dassenberg Coastal Catchment Partnership (DCCP), City Sector. The DCCP comprises of the DCCP East (Witzands Aquifer Nature Reserve [WANR] and Brakkefontein Conservation Area) and the DCCP West (Klein Dassenberg Conservation Area and Stewardship sites) sections. The managing of the DCCP further includes building and maintaining relations with various stakeholder groups, communities, private landowners, City Departments including Sub council structures and other agencies. The DCCP is also responsible for the operational management of an official residential property and a visitors’ information centre. The DCCP staff assisted the Table Bay Nature Reserve with the prescribed Reedbed burn at the Zoarvlei Conservation Section of the reserve. 2 City of Cape Town | DCCP | Quarterly Report |1 April to 30 June 2015 During April, DCCP staff members assisted Table Bay Nature Reserve with their quarterly integrated bird cenus including the Coordinated Water Bird Count (CWAC). The burning of Brush piles at Klein Dassenberg was initiated over the reporting period with a total of 587 brush piles burnt since May 2015. 2. HIGHLIGHTS & CHALLENGES Highlights DCCP staff in partnership with the Cape Reptile Club held a Snake awareness day for the Witsands Community. Approximately 40 people attended and a variety of items were show cased including a live snake exposition by Mr Vardaman Handiek (professional snake handler) took place. The DCCP staff assisted with a Raphicerus melanotis (Cape Grysbok) capture at the Atlantic Beach Golf Estate. An adult and a sub-adult male were caught and were released at the Milnerton Racecourse Section of the Table Bay Nature Reserve. Two of the DCCP staff members who attended an Environmental Management Inspectorate course were awarded their accreditation certificates as level 3 Environmental Management Inspectors. Challenges The continuous theft and vandalism of the Klein Dassenberg fence remains a challenge. The DCCP staff will initiate some reparation and or replacement of the fence once the brush pile burning operations have been concluded for 2015. It was observed that in areas where brush was stacked, the fence was cut to access for the collection of wood. It was decided by management to exclude a few brush piles that do not 3 City of Cape Town | DCCP | Quarterly Report |1 April to 30 June 2015 pose a high potential for fire risk from the brush pile burning operations for wood collection purposes. These stacks are small, and are in places where the fence has already been cut. The storage of the DCCP’s jerry cans with fuel, machinery, tools, equipment, cleaning materials and herbicide is still a major challenge. Inadequate and improper office space for staff and management to work in is not conducive to a comfortable, efficient, safe and productive environment. CONSERVATION PLANNING During the previous reporting period, Clifford Dorse reported that the City of Cape Town’s legal service is still in process of tracking certified copies of certain title deeds for the Proclamation process. City officials are expecting the process to be completed by the end of June 2015. There are a number of title deeds which also require reprinting, all relevant documentation pertaining to this has been submitted. The City of Cape Town is required to establish Protected Area Advisory Committees (PAACs), for each of the City of Cape Town’s nature reserves and protected natural areas. This is according to the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, ACT 57 of 2003. An internal meeting was held on the 24/04/2015, regarding the way forward and preparation for the PAAC meetings. Each Reserve proposed a date/s for holding their first PAAC meeting. The first WANR PAAC meeting will take place in October 2015. 4. FLORA Invasive Flora Management Invasive vegetation clearing coninued at WANR (staff only), and Klein Dassenberg (Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve teams, and by staff). Brakkefontein/Public Works property 800 ha: The Invasive Species Unit provided a Contractor (Japie Samuels) with a team of 24 to conduct follow-up clearing at Brakkefontein. The follow-ups we conducted during May but the team resumed their work in June. On a visit to Brakkefontein on the 24/04/2015, staff observed the clearing, herbicide application and stacking of Acacia saligna (Port Jackson). 4 City of Cape Town | DCCP | Quarterly Report |1 April to 30 June 2015 Klein Dassenberg Conservation Area 353 ha: the Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve (CWCBR) Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) project continued with initial clearing of Acacia saligna (Port Jackson) at Klein Dassenberg. A total of 127.84 ha of invasive species was cleared from the start of the project in 2014 to present. As part of the site preparation for the planned brush burning intended to reduce the fuel load on site, the DCCP staff with the assistance of the Mamre WoF team and the TBNR students continued with the re- stacking of cut Port Jackson and Pine. The DCCP staff also conducted some follow-up foliar spraying of Acacia saligna along the eastern boundary as part of the firebreak maintenance. During April, the DCCP had the Klein Dassenberg neighbouring land owners from the Saxonworld area sign an agreement which allows the CWCBR EPWP to clear and cut a 20 m fire break on their properties, adjacent to the conservation area. The DCCP staff cut Eucalyptus sp. and Pinus pinaster in the area set aside for the brush pile burning operations. These trees were cut to reduce the risk of them igniting while conducting the brush pile burns. Kanonkop Private Conservation Area 20 ha: Angus Riffel was contracted to do the follow-up clearing and clear for the establishment of a fire break with funding from Table Mountain Fund along the eastern boundary. After a final inspection during the previous reporting period,
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