BREAKING NEWS (August 22, 2006) HERE WE GO AGAIN.....THE NEW draft proposals to ban dogs COMPLETELY from more mountain park zones. SANPARKS is rapidly becoming cape town public enemy number 1 as table mountain is converted into just another national park for export. Its dawning on many of us that SANPARKS is clearly not we we thought it would be and is not the asset we that we hoped for. Brazen liars they are becoming a just a nasty dictatorial Machiavellian liability. SO ..HERE WE GO AGAIN.........NOT JUST THE FORESTS, THARS, DEER, NOW ITS OUR PETS.....For many of us urban folk, nature lovers who see the mountain escape as our second ad better life WE ARE NOW BEING MUGGED AGAIN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT BY SANPARKS....ROUND 4 or 5 ! Quite frankly 99% of us who live here would rather get on with our lives....as we always did and continue enjoying our walks/ runs/ rides with our best friends /dog companions rather than having the very remote chance of seing Grysbokke and and baking in the low bushy fynbos with more and more and more restricted areas and eventually no forest at all! Not only is SANPARKS robbing us of our lives but they are DEFACING & VANDALISING south African nature conservation. How is it, SANPARKS like a bull in a china shop is turning absolute nature lovers into against them. Logically we should love them. They have become a liability to us...not an asset. Many people are now arriving at the opinion that the best thing that SANPARKS could do for Cape Town is GET OUT!
Is nature conservation SA now just another export ? local
needs now NULL AND
VOID!
SO FROM THE DICTATORS IN PRETORIA .... who have not the foggiest of the needs in
Cape town the NEW DRAFT PLAN IMPACTING ON OUR LIVES AND OUR PETS! .....More bad
news ....and another massive infringement of the rights of a large sector of the
Metropolis public.
copies of the
Table Mountain National Park's proposals for alterations to the existing zoning
on the mountain and for recreational activities to be designated for the
separate zones. These are contained in their draft revised Conservation
Development Framework which was launched to the public on two open days on
August 14 and 15. New is the introduction of so-called "remote wilderness
zones" which are hived off from mere remote zones. These distinctions
will not mean much to the dog owners as the proposal is to ban dogs altogether
from both these zones. On the map you will see that they are coloured,
respectively, darkest green and dark green. Dogs off leads will only be
permitted in "quiet zones" and "low intensity leisure zones", coloured
respectively pale green and yellow on the map. Do not be confused by the colour
coding on the attached form for recreational activities which does not always
coincide with the colour coding on the map.
These proposals appear to deny any persons who have their dogs with them from:
Suikerbossie to Camps Bay or on the Apostles;
Kommetjie to Oceanview or on the Kommetjie mountain;
Hout Bay to Silvermine or on the greater Silvermine West Area;
Constantia Nek to Silvermine or anywhere in that area;
Ou Kaapseweg to Kalk Bay/St James or anywhere in that area;
Simonstown to Smitswinkel Bay or anywhere on the Simonstown mountains;
Ocean View to Red Hill or anywhere in that area.
ie
almost all of our mountains!
We are now within the period for public comment which closes on 14 September.
Friends of the Dog Walkers have asked that the period for comment be extended
and FDW will be sending in their comments, both as representatives of the Kennel
Union and of private dog owners, as soon as soon as we have studied the
document, which is over 50 pages.
Copies are
supposed to be in public libraries and if not available we ask the public to
contact Rod Cronwright (rodc@setplan.co.za); Ikapa Enviroplan; tel 021 422 1946
and complain.
Please ask as many dog owners as you are in contact with to send in their own
personal comments in their own words to: DJEC. Contact details PO Box 24, Sir
Lowry's Pass. tel 021 851 0900; fax 021 851 0933; nick@djec.co.za.
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