Since its launch in September 2014, the City of Cape Town’s Invasive Species Unit’s Insect Mass Rearing Facility in Westlake has been using an organic, cost-effective and environmentally safe biological control method to curb invasive plants by breeding and releasing their natural enemies: insects. To date, the facility has reared more than 243 000 insects for release across the city to help root out alien invasive plants (AIP). The facility currently rears agents for four
The City of Cape Town’s Metro Police Department has taken delivery of seven new horses that will serve on the Equestrian Unit. The new recruits will have some big hooves to fill following the retirement of five equestrian officers at the end of May. The retirees were handed over to the Cape of Good Hope SPCA who found them a home in Kalbaskraal near Malmesbury. They were all transported to their new home earlier this
