TCMF: Urgent Action required

We need your help...

Feedback on the draft revised Tokai Cecilia Management Framework (TCMF) is due by Tuesday 31 May 2022. Other stakeholder groups are mobilizing through social media to flood SANParks with their submissions which are not compatible with conservation. If you haven't yet submitted your inputs, please click the button below to support our conservation-friendly submission to SANParks. This will take you less than 1 minute. Alternatively you can work through our comments and edit as you wish, or add your insights before submitting.

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The TCMF process is in the final (3rd) phase which includes SANParks drafting the revised framework and allows for one round of inputs before being finalised. The draft is the result of the entire TCMF process which started in May 2021 and included facilitated engagement and a commenting period (1st phase) and focused workshops and consolidation (2nd phase).

SANParks have produced this draft revised framework based on approximately 1500 hours of work done by the working groups. We all have until Tuesday 31 May 2022 to submit our comments. The Friends of Tokai Park support the draft revised framework in it's current form. However there are many who do not, and are mobilizing their stakeholders to submit their comments.

Therefore we urgently need you to make your voice heard if you care about doing your bit to halt species extinctions globally by protecting fynbos at Tokai Park and Cecilia, and ensuring that the conservation mandate of SANParks is upheld. Luckily, the Friends of Tokai Park have prepared comments which you could use if you don't have time to prepare your own.

"For such a time as this..."

It was for this ultimate battle for the protection of the last of the lowland Sand Fynbos in the Cape for which I joined the Friends of Tokai Park in 2016 and have been ploughing hours ever since (alongside many others) into trying to raise awareness about the importance of the Sand Fynbos and the plight of this site at Tokai Park. I have been working behind the scenes, building this mailing list, raising funding and organizing events such as the Fynbos Festival and Nature Week.

It has come to this critical moment, and we need people who love fynbos and want to stop species extinctions globally, to take a stand and make your voices heard. For those who love our natural heritage and want to ensure that it is protected for future generations, your time is now.

The Friends of Tokai Park have prepared a statement which you can support and submit as is, or feel free to edit as you see fit, and submit to SANParks with just one click of a button. Please help us by doing this. We will also be sending another email and another easy action a little bit later, as some alarming information has come to our attention that could jeopardize this process that so many people have invested so much in. Please watch out for this and please consider giving another two minutes of your time.

I would really appreciate you taking the time to make your voice heard.
Thank you to you all...

Alanna

The botanical photos in this blog post are by Morgan Trimble. Read her article to find out more about why it is so urgent and critical to protect Cape Flats Sand Fynbos.