This year be of aid to Alberts Farm Conservancy
Friends of Alberts Farm Conservancy are calling on the community to help keep the park safe and clean throughout 2026.
Alberts Farm Conservancy, a flagship park under Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo (JCPZ), is celebrating its 80th anniversary. It was originally a farm, transformed into an open space for public use.
This 74ha piece of gently sloping land lies against the Northcliff Ridge, between Northcliff, Albertskroon, and Greymont, and is the second largest green lung in the city, after Delta Park. It comprises grassland, rocky ridges, forest, wetlands with marshes, a stream, a spring, and a dam.
Friends of Alberts Farm Conservancy (FOAFC) is a volunteer-based public benefit organisation with an important working relationship with JCPZ for about 30 years. Together they maintain and conserve this special place in its natural state.
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In FOAFC’s efforts to restore, maintain and protect Alberts Farm Conservancy, in 2026, they look forward to:
- Expanding and strengthening their volunteer base, partnerships, and community engagement, and
- Engaging with JMPD and Johannesburg City Park rangers to increase effective and appropriate response to the many by-law infringements that are occurring regularly.
- Projects they plan to achieve in 2026:
- Alien invasive plant control (ongoing project),
- Rehabilitation of the spruit riverine area and surrounds,
- Rehabilitation of the main ridge,
- Spring conservation,
- Education/awareness and interest group programmes,
- Dam wall repair,
- Water quality testing,
- Webpage development (of the current webpage),
- Effective by-law infringement response strategy, and
- Raise the status of the park.
What help do they require most?
- Voluntary community assistance and support with tasks, such as clearing litter and glass, removal of weeds, clearing alien invasive plants, fundraising and events management, social media and website development and maintenance, and educational/awareness activities,
- Community support for fundraising ventures, and donations,
- JMPD and JCPZ Park rangers support on by-law infringements, and
- The committee needs to expand its portfolio and would welcome anyone willing to be actively involved.
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