Posted on the 17th January 2011The Important Bird Areas (IBA) Programme is one of the largest global conservation programmes, and nearly 11 000 sites have been identified and declared IBAs. After a site has been declared an IBA, th... Read more
Posted on the 5th December 2010
(This overview of BirdLife South Africa's work on terrestrial species was taken from CEO Mark Anderson', report to Council on 4 December 2010. - Ed.)
One of BirdLife South Africa’... Read more
Posted on the 5th December 2010(This overview of BLSA's work on seabirds during 2010 was taken from CEO Mark Anderson's report to Council on 4 December 2010. - Ed.)
Seabirds
Dr Ross Wanless is the Manager of the Seabird Division,... Read more
Posted on the 27th October 2010The 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 around Cape Town. The co-ordinator for the Ci... Read more
Posted on the 16th September 2010DEALING WITH MAJOR DEVELOPMENTAL THREATS TO IMPORTANT BIRD AREAS (IBAs)
Introduction
Habitat loss remains one of the biggest threats to birds and the environment in South Africa and the rest ... Read more
Posted on the 14th September 2010Trust launches Fishing Line Recovery & Recycling Program
The Dyer Island Conservation Trust (DICT) in association with Overstrand Municipality, Gansbaai Administration, is very excited to be esta... Read more
Posted on the 10th August 2010(Prof Les Underhill reports as follows on the ADU website - Ed.).
PhD student Sally Hofmeyr is attending the annual "Fynbos Forum" meeting, being held this year in Citrusdal from 3–6 ... Read more
Posted on the 22nd July 2010(Dr. Stuart Shearer forwarded this letter, together with a series of links to information on wind farms to Dr. Hanneline Smit, the conservation manager of BirdLife South Africa. The links certainly ma... Read more
Posted on the 30th June 2010
Cape Town, 30 June 2010: BirdLife South Africa, in collaboration with Carl Zeiss (Pty) Ltd., is rewarding fishermen who are trying to improve fishing techniques to help save endangered seabir... Read more
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
