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Setting The Cape Aflame
The Cape Aflame Project donated R400 000 to four Cape-based essential-service organisations at a function held at TMNP’s Newlands Fire Base on 26 July 2016.
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The Cape Aflame Project donated R400 000 to four Cape-based essential-service organisations at a function held at TMNP’s Newlands Fire Base on Tuesday evening, 26 July 2016.
Cape Town’s Dance with Fire
Shot through with oft-overwhelming images of fiery cataclysm and vegetative rejuvenation, The Cape Aflame – Cape Town’s Dance with Fire proves itself more than an easily accessible, moist-eyed rehash of 2015’s Muizenberg Fire. It offers a detailed case study of wildfire and amply demonstrates the success of integrated wildfire management […]
Cape Botanists Record March Fire’s ‘Devastation’
If Capetonians wandering these fire-scoured hills noticed the charcoaled, crabbed husks and twisted candelabra of toasted bushes, they seemed to pay them no heed. Of stumps or straggly, spidered stalks stripped of life, they saw little. They saw not black, white, brown or khaki, but yellow, gold, rust, bronze, copper, […]
The Cape Aflame Clears the Tower
The Cape Aflame – Cape Town’s Dance with Fire was launched at Groot Constantia last night and keynote
A Dummy’s Guide to Starting Wildfires
There are many theories as to how fires start. We know that, in the main, they are started by people living in our 3.75-million strong community and that, short of fencing off the mountain, they will continue to threaten SANParks’s prescribed-burn fire-management policy.
Urban-fringe Properties a Burning Issue
In a timely article in today’s Constantiaberg Bulletin, Protect your land from fire, Karen Watkins sends out a warning to Capetonians, one echoing statements made by Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) Fire Manager Philip Prins in the Afterword to The Cape Aflame – Cape Town’s Dance with Fire: “Where residential […]
A Message from SPCA CEO Allan Perrins
Cape of Good Hope SPCA CEO Allan Perrins calls on Capetonians to help, through buying a copy (or copies) of The Cape Aflame – Cape Town’s Dance with Fire, the SPCA’s Wildlife and Horse Care Units acquire “… items such as owl boxes, nets, field animal stretchers, ropes, halters, portable […]
Set the Cape Aflame
Treat yourself. Order a copy of The Cape Aflame – Cape Town’s Dance with Fire now and support the CoGH SPCA and other essential public-service providers.
The Fire Tracers
Click daily firelines for descriptions and images. Select the View larger map icon at the right of the toolbar for a full-screen view. “During the Muizenberg Fire, sponsors afforded us real-time photographs on the morning of Wednesday, 4 March (and, again, after the fire) from satellites passing overhead. The gathered […]
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