The City of Cape Town is in the process of obtaining a permit to burn alien vegetation that was removed at Table Bay Nature Reserve: Diep River section, as part of the invasive alien vegetation control programme.
Stack and brush piles will be burnt when weather conditions are favourable during May and September 2013.
Some 30 hectares of dense invasive alien vegetation (mainly Acacia saligna, known as Port Jackson willow) was cleared, stacked and brush-piled between December 2012 and March 2013. The burning of brush piles is essential to reduce the fire risk caused by the dry plant material on the site. Burning will assist in re-establishing indigenous vegetation and will ensure the success of the planned follow-up operations to control regrowth of invasive plants on the site.
