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
Posted on the 26th March 2012New map to reduce the impact of wind farms on South Africa’s birds
The Endangered Wildlife Trust and BirdLife South Africa want to ensure that wind farms are developed at sites which do not neg... Read more
Posted on the 19th March 2012Dear Stakeholder,
We are proud to announce that we have submitted the draft management plan for Agulhas National Park to the Department of Environmental Affairs for comment and approval.
The draft m... Read more
Posted on the 15th February 2012Hi all
Two additional species have been added to the 'special watch' section of the SABAP2 website - Secretarybird and White-bellied Korhaan (http://sabap2.adu.org.za and click on the 'special watc... Read more
Posted on the 14th February 2012Hi folks
Click on this link to read the full story about the decline in the distribution of Martial Eagles (Polemaetus bellicosus) - http://sabap2.adu.org.za/
The current top story in the latest new... Read more
Posted on the 24th January 2012
Hi to all
After nearly 18 months of constructive debate and discussion, I am happy to announce that the first version of the Avian Wind Farm Sensitivity map is now available on the BirdLife Sou... Read more
