The Kloofnek and Newlands Conservation & Tourism departments have both relocated to Mt Pleasant, on the way to Rhodes Memorial. All management staff are therefore now in one main Northern office. P.O. Box 181 Rondebosch 7701 phone - office hours - 689 4441 after hours - 9574700 - (emergencies & fires only)

Bark Stripping for muti kills our forests There has been an alarming increase in the destructive stripping of bark off indigenous trees. If left untreated these trees will become infected, and if completely ring-barked, they will die. Please report all observations of bark stripping to Samantha Wright - GEF Assistant Section Ranger at Newlands, Cape Peninsula National Park, or to Cape Tech. Nature Conservation student, Carina Potgieter, who is currently in charge of monitoring the debarking of trees in Newlands Forest. ph: 689 7438 Although some previously stripped trees like this one are numbered, their locations have not all been plotted, so please take careful note of where you saw the damaged tree. Student workers will then go out and paint the damaged areas with a protective coating, (as you can see has been done here above and to the left of the newly stripped area). Thanks!

All things are bound together: All things connect. What happens to the earth happens to the children of the earth. Man has not woven the web of life; he is but one thread. Whatever he does to the web he does to himself.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher Wordsworth

Winter 2001- The Cape Peninsula had the worst storms in 40 years

The concrete road up Table Mountain from Constantia Nek, just after the main lookout point, before the little bridge
before	and after repairs

The well established stream-beds were relatively unaltered by the deluges of August,
but huge ravines were carved out of areas that had been merely bends in the path.

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On the contour path just North of Newlands Ravine. Just the other side of 'Ronnie is a huge wash-away; torn trees on the far side show the effects of the cascading boulders.

This was just an insignificant little stream that only flowed in winter.

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