Volunteer
Urban nature survives because people show up for it
Wetlands, dunes and remnant patches sit inside a city of five million people. Keeping them alive takes hands on the ground, most of them not on anyone’s payroll.
Small groups, real tasks, ordinary weather
507 volunteers have given time to conservation action since 2007.
We are not a large volunteer programme and would rather say so than oversell it. What we run is small, hands-on and steady: clearing invasive alien plants, monitoring species, planting indigenous stock, maintaining paths and helping at events. Opportunities are usually during the week, and often outdoors in whatever the Cape decides to do that day.
Bring closed shoes, a hat, water and a willingness to get dirty. No experience is needed. Twenty-five years of this work has taught us that the people who keep coming back are the ones who live near the site, and that is the relationship we are really trying to build.
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