Posted on the 17th June 2010Johannesburg, 15 June 2010: Three of South Africa’s flagship bird species have moved closer to extinction, according to the 2010 IUCN Red List. The African Penguin’s status has chang... Read more
Posted on the 30th May 2010African Penguins have been sliding towards extinction since industrial fishing started around the Cape. The last four years have seen a population crash. BirdLife International has changed their conse... Read more
Posted on the 25th May 2010With all the talk about a massive decline in Raptors across Africa, I wondered if there are any raptors that seem to show an increase. Of course there is the urban spread of some raptors like Little S... Read more
Posted on the 2nd May 2010A FEW NOTES ON THE STATUS OF THE AFRICAN PENGUINS
The African Penguin Spheniscus demersus (Brilpikkewyn) is one of seven seabird species that is a breeding endemic of the Benguela current... Read more
Posted on the 18th April 2010A recent preliminary conservation assessment has shown that South Africa’s bustards and korhaans are one of our country’s most threatened groups of birds. Ten species of bustards occur in ... Read more
Posted on the 16th April 2010BirdLife International and WWF-South Africa recently achieved a major conservation success by improving the methods used by commercial fishermen in the south-east Atlantic Ocean to avoid killing seabi... Read more
Posted on the 22nd March 2010OUR ESTUARIES IN CRISIS!
Much has already been written in the Hermanus Times about the critical condition of the Overstrand’s river estuaries. The level of pollution in the Klein, Bot-Kleinmond... Read more
Posted on the 12th February 2010(We have received the request below from the Overstrand Conservation Foundation and in reaction to this the committee of BirdLife Overberg decided that we will push two teams into the field to do thes... Read more
Posted on the 10th February 2010Wind energy is a very welcome addition to the South African energy mix, and is far ‘cleaner’ than coal-fired energy generation. However, this does not mean that it is without environmental... Read more
Posted on the 3rd February 2010(We have been flooded with articles and documentation about this topic. Members from Caledon and Greyton to Swellendam have expressed concern about EIA's on wind farm jumping up all over the sho... Read more
Posted on the 9th December 2009(The booklet “Birds and Environmental Change: building an early warning system in South Africa” is the product of collaboration between the South African Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) and... Read more
