COMMUNITREE

Our goal is to create functional fynbos corridors in urban environments, across Cape Town, connecting locally indigenous insects and animals to nature reserves, enabling them to feed and breed. These corridors also allow isolated plants to be pollinated by near-by insects, birds, or wind-blown pollen. Our energy is focussed on greening with locally indigenous plants and shrubs, along the Liesbeek and Black river, which act as biodiversity highways. Urbanisation is a significant threat to the unique biodiversity of the local fauna and flora, and Communitree aims to reconnect our urban spaces to surrounding protected reserves... The important but threatened biodiversity of Cape Town is what has motivated us to initiate Communitree in this city. There is a lot to be gained from trying to protect the remaining patches of original vegetation but as can be seen from the maps we will also need to try and restore some of the indigenous vegetation and create links between remaining patches...