Environmental education constitutes an important focus area in False Bay Nature Reserve, with three environmental education programmes currently running: the Zeekoevlei Environmental Education Programme (ZEEP) [a 3-day/2-night programme that can accommodate 50 learners, run by the Cape Town Environmental Education Trust (CTEET)], the False Bay Ecology Park Environmental Education Centre overnight programme (3-day/2-night programme, also run by CTEEET, that can accommodate 120 learners) and the Rondevlei Environmental Education Centre day programme (a three-hour programme that can accommodate 50 learners, run by City of Cape Town staff). An average of 4 000 learners participate in these environmental education programmes annually, where they are educated through field trips and/or bush camps, hands-on environmental activities, displays and talks, as well as reptile and animal shows (Khan, 2011). The programmes are specifically aimed at underprivileged children from the low-income areas