Posted on the 12th November 2012Shocking Amur Falcon massacre in northeast India
Johannesburg, 9 November 2012: The massacre of tens of thousands of migrating Amur Falcons (Falco amurensis) killed in Nagaland, Wokha district in nor... Read more
Posted on the 7th November 2012(This article originally appeared in the November 2012 edition of the BirdLife Plett newsletter. - Ed.)
Cape Eagle Owl Rescue: Jane Luck [article from CX Express]
After a long-damp-grey-misery spel... Read more
Posted on the 2nd November 2012
Keeping track of penguins
Cape Town, 2 November 2012. Where do African Penguins go when they’re not breeding? This may sound like the opening line to a lame joke, but currently it’s... Read more
Posted on the 1st November 2012(There is an interesting debate unfolding at the base of the Mitchell's Pass near Ceres. We include correspondence about this as user comments. - Ed.)
Dear Anton,
I trust this finds yo... Read more
Posted on the 9th October 2012POWER OF THE FUTURE: NUCLEAR OR RENEWABLES
A candid look and open debate on the pros and cons of Nuclear versus Renewable Energy.
With the possibility of a Nuclear Reactor being planned for our ar... Read more
Posted on the 29th September 2012
Two papers which highlight the problems caused to birds by abandoned fishing gear were published in OO yesterday evening --- one is the tragic story of an entangled Bank Cormorant chick that took m... Read more
Posted on the 24th September 2012(This was taken from Mark Anderson's weekly feedback on 21 September. - Ed.)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
BirdLife South Africa (Hanneline Smit and Sam Ralston) hosted a renewable energy scoping mission at Bird... Read more
Posted on the 17th September 2012The increase in the abundance of Pied Crows in the Western Cape and the potential threat they may represent to other indigenous bird species and biodversity in general has been raised at Forum level. ... Read more
Posted on the 23rd August 2012(This article first appeared in the BirdLife South Africa e-newsletter of August 2012. - Ed.)
BirdLife South Africa supports renewable energy production, but renewable energy facilities, particularly... Read more
Posted on the 22nd August 2012New booklet: Biodiversity early warning systems: South African citizen scientists monitoring change. Edited by Phoebe Barnard & Marienne de Villiers.
This booklet is the result of a collaborati... Read more
Posted on the 15th July 2012
REPORT SIGHTINGS OF HOUSE CROWS
The City of Cape Town's Invasive Alien Species department, together with CapeNature, is working on the programme to overcome the House Crow problem in and ar... Read more
Posted on the 14th May 2012IBA NATIONAL PROGRAMME
One of the most exciting news items for this week is the launch of the IBA online directory pages. Since the launch earlier this week, the directory webpage has received more t... Read more
Posted on the 4th May 2012(Romi Boom, The Editor of wildcard.co.za kindly gave us permission to load this. - Ed.)
Ludwig’s Bustard became a globally Endangered species in 2010 due to increasing collisions with power lin... Read more
Posted on the 4th May 2012(Romi Boom, the Editor of wildcard.co.za, kindly gave us permission to load this. - Ed.)
Avian malaria in Western Cape birds
Avian malaria occurs worldwide on most continents. In the Western Cape it... Read more
Posted on the 4th April 2012Hi Team SABAP2,
Have a look at this amazing range shift, only made visible because you have helped us collect the data that reveal the pattern. Every single atlas checklist is a piece in the big jigs... Read more
