False Bay is a body of water in the Atlantic Ocean between the mountainous Cape Peninsula and the Hottentots Holland Mountains in the extreme south-west of South Africa. The mouth of the bay faces south and is demarcated by Cape Point to the west and Cape Hangklip to the east. The north side of the bay is the low-lying Cape Flats. Much of the bay is on the coast of the City of Cape Town, and it includes part of the Table Mountain National Park Marine Protected Area and the whole of the Helderberg Marine Protected Area. This photo is Cape Point is situated within the Table Mountain National Park, within a section of the Park referred to as Cape of Good Hope. This section covers the whole of the southern tip of the Cape Peninsula.
The Western Cape Government together with CapeNature have unveiled a provincial biodiversity plan and protection strategy to strengthen environmental resilience.
There’s more to read here…
This content is for subscribers only.
Subscribe to Fishing Industry News SA to get full access to our exclusive content now. Subscribe Now
For many it is a pleasingly development that greater scrutiny will be on the state of safety compliance by fishing companies regarding their fishing...
There are truly some terrible images on social media of the damage to beaches up the West Coast due to coastal mining activities. Many contaminated sites remain in a "care and maintenance" phase, where the focus is on containment rather than achieving permanent remediation. Last month, to comply with an agreed order of the Western Cape High Court, mining company Trans Hex finally delivered its updated Environmental Management Programme (EMPr) to mine near the Olifants River Estuary and surrounding coast. However, according to a team of scientists and lawyers, it contains serious flaws that render it non-compliant with the order. In another case Protect the West Coast (PTWC) raised a red flag over a diamond mining application that will destroy 3184 hectares of critical biodiversity biome in the Northern Cape. But apparently there are solutions to the problem…
By Kevern Cochrane, Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, Rhodes University, Makhanda
In 2007, I published an article “Marine Protected Areas as Management Measures: Tools or Toys?”,...