On 29 September 2022, TMF’s Project Coordinator Carla Wood attended the CapeNature Stewardship Awards evenings where the Table Mountain Fund was given a special award in recognition and appreciation of an outstanding contribution made towards biodiversity conservation in the Western Cape. The three awards evenings form
On Monday, 12 September 2022, friends and colleagues from across the Western Cape conservation sector came together to celebrate the much-anticipated premier of The Ghosts of Table Mountain. This inspiring film, which has been years in the making, reveals the secret life of the Critically
Through their Daring Disas initiative, BRAVE Rock Girl is not only inspiring a generation of young women to be brave, bold and confident, but to become leaders within the conservation sector. During the June/July School Holidays Cape Leopard Trust’s ‘Girls in Conservation’ initiative hosted the Daring
The Table Mountain Fund’s Prosperity Programme aims to unlock the potential of fynbos-based economies in order to provide economic and social benefits for our local communities. To meet the Fund's Prosperity Programme objectives, in 2021 TMF put out a call for proposals, looking for social
By working together, we can ensure that fynbos remains healthy and intact for future generations. The Table Mountain Fund is calling for concept proposals for our Fynbos Forever Programme. The Fynbos Forever Programme aims to ensure that priority ecosystems, based within the Cape Floral Region, are
𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 | 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗿 The Table Mountain Fund is calling for concept proposals which align to our Prosperity Programme, which aims to ensure that fynbos-based economies are productive and resilient. Social entrepreneurs/ enterprises ready to scale their business to provide
It is with very sad hearts that we bid farewell to one of our dedicated Trustees, Phumeza Mgxashe. In 2019 the Table Mountain Fund was honoured to have Phumeza join us as a voluntary Trustee. Her warm nature, caring smile and passion for South Africa were
GREATER KROMME STEWARDSHIP INITIATIVE PROJECT UPDATE By Wentzel Coetzer and Kevin McCann Some of the greatest hindrances to securing new Protected Areas are the costs associated with the formal declaration process, as well as the challenges of resourcing the ongoing post-declaration support to privately-owned Protected Areas (in
The 2020 financial year was one of our busiest and certainly one of our most exciting. We had the privilege of spending much of the year looking back over 21 years of conservation success, reminiscing with great pride about some of TMF’s greatest achievements and
GREATER KROMME STEWARDSHIP PROJECT UPDATE: By Kevin McCann and Wentzel Coetzer Securing threatened Fynbos habitats, in new protected areas, is an extremely important response to the risks and threats facing this endemic vegetation type. This is a key intervention of the Greater Kromme Stewardship (GKS) initiative in