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04 December 2025
On Wednesday, 3 December 2025, the City of Cape Town’s Environmental Management Department hosted its inaugural Partner Appreciation Event at the Smart Living Education Centre and Dome Classroom, Green Point Park
20 November 2025
The Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team (CPBMJTT) has finalised and adopted the Action Plan which details the practical implementation of the Cape Peninsula Baboon Strategic Management Plan
05 November 2025
The City is horrified by the brutal poaching of 19 Angulate Tortoises at the Table Bay Nature Reserve.
05 August 2025
Since 2013, 17 876 animals have been sterilised at a cost of nearly R8 million.
29 May 2025
The Cape Baboon Partnership has taken over the responsibility for certain operational tasks
28 May 2025
Officials placed a wildlife trailer and attempted to 'walk' the animal into the trailer
25 March 2025
The domestic animal survey was launched on Monday, 17 March 2025, in collaboration with the animal welfare sector
14 February 2025
The CPBAG will play a crucial role in baboon management on the Cape Peninsula, in particular in ensuring collaboration between stakeholders.
26 September 2024
World Rabies Day on Saturday, 28 September 2024, the City of Cape Town wants to remind residents and visitors that the rabies virus is now considered endemic in the Cape Fur Seal population
31 July 2024
The City of Cape Town in partnership with the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation and Sea Search, convened an expert scientific workshop last week
12 July 2024
Assessments by the Disaster Risk Management Centre and Human Settlements Department to date indicate that just over 33 000 households have been affected across the metropole
04 July 2024
A call on communities, interested parties to nominate representatives to serve on Cape Peninsula Baboon Advisory Group.
24 June 2024
There are currently seven confirmed cases of rabies in Cape Fur Seals.
24 November 2023
We are appealing to members of the public, tour operators, tour guides and all our visitors to work with the City and DFFE to put an end to this abuse and cruelty that seals endure during training
19 October 2023
The City of Cape Town and SPCA want to express their outrage at the ongoing public harassment of a seal on Strand Beach that resulted in the seal attacking a visitor and the ultimate unnecessary death of the seal.
07 September 2023
This year, we celebrate 10 years of the Mass Animal Sterilisation Project (MASP) and send grateful thanks to the City of Cape Town for their continued support and recognition
07 July 2023
The Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team (JTT) wants to inform the public that the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) between SANParks, CapeNature, and the City of Cape Town has been signed by all parties.
21 June 2023
The Table Bay Nature Reserve’s Rietvlei section is closed to the public for all land based recreational activities
09 June 2023
The City’s Animal Control Unit has seen a sharp increase in the impoundment of animals in this financial year
08 June 2023
Six Cape Fur seals have been stabbed at sea, and washed ashore at Kommetjie’s Long Beach, most likely due to drowning as a result of the trauma from their wounds.
09 May 2023
The Community Services and Health Directorate first disbursed Grant-in-Aid funding to the Cape of Good Hope SPCA in 2013 for a pilot mass pet sterilisation project in Dunoon and Brown’s Farm
26 April 2023
The task team comprises of more than 25 City departments and external partners including the SAPS, the NSRI, provincial government, and the SPCA
09 January 2023
The seal had to be humanely euthanised due to the severity of the injuries that it sustained during the stoning.
25 November 2022
We are committed to ensuring that we do not see a repeat of the events earlier this week
22 November 2022
The debate has been raging for months now about a possible ban on pit-bulls, in the wake of numerous attacks
23 September 2022
On Wednesday, 21 September 2022, a Cape fox was spotted at various urban locations in Table View, close to the Table Bay Nature Reserve
20 September 2022
The Joint Task Team encourages all stakeholders, including residents, businesses and interested and affected parties, to use the opportunity to make contributions to the draft Strategic Management Plan
15 September 2022
The City of Cape Town’s Disaster Risk Management Centre (DRMC) responded to 3 760 emergencies between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022.
10 August 2022
The City of Cape Town is once again partnering with animal welfare organisations in the interest of pet health.
10 May 2022
The City of Cape Town-sponsored Absa Run Your City Cape Town 10K is switching things up
18 March 2022
Joint statement by CapeNature, Cape of Good Hope SPCA and City of Cape Town
03 March 2022
CapeNature, the CGHSPCA, and the City are calling on residents, the general public, and stakeholders to please not follow, or interfere with SWB12 in any way
23 February 2022
Joint statement by CapeNature, Cape of Good Hope SPCA and City of Cape Town
22 February 2022
The recently promulgated Animal Keeping By-law regulates the number of pets that any one person may keep, and the conditions under which those pets must be kept
14 February 2022
The Paws-a-while animal adoption fair held at Observatory on Sunday
21 January 2022
JOINT STATEMENT BY CAPENATURE, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE SPCA and CITY OF CAPE TOWN
21 December 2021
Young dispersing was captured and released on City-owned land, in the vicinity of the Da Gama troop
17 December 2021
The City wants to inform the public that the humane use of paintball markers will remain in place with ongoing oversight by CapeNature and the Cape of Good Hope SPCA.
13 December 2021
MEDIA STATEMENT BY SAFETY AND SECURITY PORTFOLIO CHAIRPERSON, COUNCILLOR MZWAKHE NQAVASHE
10 December 2021
18 November 2021
The City has been a sponsor of the race through its event support process since its inception in 2015.
11 October 2021
Metro Police officers arrested 113 suspects and issued 2 475 fines during patrols and operations in the past week
10 October 2021
The Cape of Good Hope SPCA and the City of Cape Town’s Law Enforcement Animal Control Unit confiscated four dogs, and various paraphernalia associated with dogfighting was found at the scene.
20 July 2021
JOINT STATEMENT BY ALDERMAN MARIAN NIEUWOUDT, CITY OF CAPE TOWN MAYORAL COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR SPATIAL PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT AND DR ERNST BAARD, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: CONSERVATION OPERATIONS, CAPENATURE
14 July 2021
Leopard seals primarily inhabit the Antarctic and live on the pack ice, but can also be found on the sub-Antarctic islands
08 July 2021
The Recreation and Parks Department received numerous complaints during the past few months of residents ‘dumping’ rabbits at the park in Vredekloof
25 June 2021
Given the support from both CapeNature and the Cape of Good Hope SPCA for the humane use of paintball markers, and in the interest of the safety of baboons and residents alike
26 April 2021
The revision of the Animal Keeping Policy is being driven by the City’s Safety and Security Portfolio Committee
11 April 2021
The City of Cape Town’s Flooding and Storms Task Team has already started its annual meetings to ensure various departmental plans are in place and at the ready to assist residents in the event of flooding or other weather-related damages during winter.
11 March 2021
The City of Cape Town’s newly-established joint anti-dogfighting team has already ventured into several hotspots.
7 August - 11 September 2026, Vasco Estate (Goodwood)
The Recreation and Parks Department is responsible for 201 Civic Centres, including Community Halls, Centres, Recreation Hubs and Multi-purpose centres around the metro.
The City of Cape Town today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Local Government Sector Education and Training Authority (LGSETA), establishing a multi-year strategic partnership to expand skills development
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The Killarney Drop-off facility accepts clean, garage or garden waste, recyclables and ru...
3 August - 4 September 2026
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