The 7,000 data points collected by citizen scientists helped provide a detailed picture of the associations between blue-green infrastructure and ecosystem resilience to anthropogenic stressors.
Citizen scientists were trained to monitor environmental indicators across the study locations allowing the research teams to gather more data than they ever could alone.
One of the bird hides on the Modderfontein Reserve. The reserve is home to more than 260 birds, including raptors such as the African Fish Eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer) and Long-crested Eagle (Lophaetus occipitalis).
The GCTWF is bringing together private and public sectors stakeholders around the common goal of restoring the catchments which supply the city's water.