Twenty-six volunteers met on a clear, cool morning in Salmon Street, Sunny Seas braving a 50km/h + easterly wind. This was a continuation of the August hack on the municipal land zoned for community facilities, bordered by Pearl Drive and Albertyn Drive. The target...
The wildlife awareness signs initiative was met with great enthusiasm and 44 beautiful signs were sponsored. Huge thanks to the sponsors and to Pete Oxford, resident wildlife expert, and Renee Bisch for ensuring that the animals look like OUR animals with the help of...
🌿 HOW DO WE CO-EXIST IN THE BIOSPHERE? Man vs. Nature — or Man with Nature? A message to the Betty’s Bay community There is something very special about living in Betty’s Bay. We wake up surrounded by mountains, fynbos, wetlands, lakes and the ocean. We share our...
Sponsor a sign for R1255 per sign. Deadline Friday 28 August. An exciting moment has arrived as we are now able to add wildlife signs of our animals to the streets of our village. The municipality has agreed to plant them if we provide them. This is a BBRA initiative....
UPDATE ON THE R44 PETITION UPDATE FOUR We are happy to report that having petitioned the Western Cape Provincial Parliament (WCPP) on 27 March 2026, our petition was tabled in Parliament on 22 May 2026. It was approved by the Office of the Speaker, and referred to the...
ILLEGAL HUNTING OF WILDLIFE WITH DOGS THE CONSEQUENCES OF INACTION WITH ABANDONED DOGS NOW HUNTING TO SURVIVE The illegal hunting of wildlife with dogs in the mountainous area between the Kleinmond transfer station and Kasteelkop has been ongoing for several years....
Betty's Bay's Seasonal Wetlands A simple pleasure on a quiet winter’s evening in Betty’s Bay’s flat coastal plain is the sound of rain and numerous frog calls – if the wind isn’t roaring! The cacophony of clicks from Clicking Stream frogs, Strongylopus grayii, compete...
BETTY’S BAY – A COASTAL COMMUNITY AT A CROSSROADS Betty’s Bay has long been recognised as one of South Africa’s ecological treasures. I was fortunate to serve on the editing team of Betty’s Bay: Between Mountain and Sea, a project that unfolded over ten months of...
Prior to the meeting on 31 July, and in response to residents saying there was no place to discuss the information they had heard at the first community engagement session on 9 June, the BBC published an informal...
Lisa Nupen of SANCCOB and Faroeshka Rodgers of CapeNature presented information regarding the status of the African Penguin at Stony Point, the increase in predation by caracal and the planned predator-mitigation fence. This second engagement session was well...