NATIONAL NEWS - A ward councillor believes plans to turn the Centurion lake into a so-called “urban park” might help protect birdlife in the area, Centurion Rekord reports.
“Some people don’t believe me when I tell them that birds are living at the lake,” ward councillor Peter Sutton told the media.
“They think the lake is too polluted for any animals to live there, but we have had reports of animals such as otters returning to the Hennops River and the lake.”
He, however, said that Centurion Hotel staff had spotted an owl and even a monitor lizard, which gave a contractor a scare as it came out of the wetland once, at the lake.
“Before the lake, there was a naturally flowing river here and natural life was in living in harmony with the river,” he said.
He said the plans were in place to fix the man-made problems at the lake such as sediment build-up, which impeded the natural flow of the river.
But Sutton believed the lake had “already taken matters into its own hands to some extent”.
“Nature is already healing itself at the lake and wetlands are forming again naturally,” Sutton said.
“Tourists from around the world are coming to the lake to view wildlife here.”
