Posted on the 27th May 2014
Swift Terns are one of the few locally-breeding seabirds whose numbers are increasing. To help understand the main factors driving the positive trend of this species, a team of researchers from the... Read more
Posted on the 26th May 2014
(This article first appeared in the BirdLife South Africa E-newsletter in May 2014. - Ed.)
In April, three young conservationists headed to the Netherlands to receive the Future for Nature Award ... Read more
Posted on the 26th May 2014
(This article first appeared in the BirdLife South Africa E-newsletter in May 2014. - Ed.)
The Bitou Local Conservation Group (LCG) was the first LCG formed by BirdLife South Africa following a f... Read more
Posted on the 26th May 2014
(This article first appeared in the BirdLife South Africa E-newsletter in May 2014. - Ed.)
Conservation success stories are hard to find. Rarely are they the result of simple, elegant solutions t... Read more
Posted on the 26th April 2014
(This report originally appeared in the APRIL 2014 edition of BIRDLIFE PLETTENBERG BAY'S newsletter. -Ed.)
Nature’s Valley Trust celebrates one year of our Tsitsikamma Fynbos Research p... Read more
Posted on the 17th April 2014
Fences – a friend or foe of birds? You can help us answer this!
Birds are killed each year when they collide with fences. Often these species are also of conservation concern, for example t... Read more
Posted on the 3rd April 2014
Black Harriers migrate east in summer
(Thanks to Rob Simmons for forwarding this material. - Ed.)
Now that the breeding season is well and truly over and all of our tagged birds have decided... Read more
Posted on the 2nd March 2014
BirdLife South Africa’s Verlorenvlei Protected Areas Project gets underway
Cape Town, 2 March 2014:
Verlorenvlei estuary and its water catchment area, which are major conservation pr... Read more
Posted on the 18th February 2014
Progress Report for BirdLife South Africa’s Western Cape Conservation Programme
Project Title: Western Cape Regional Conservation Programme
Project Executant: Dale Wright, Regional Cons... Read more
Posted on the 29th January 2014
(There is shocking news in this media release by BirdLife South Africa. - Ed.)
Controversial wind farm in Lesotho gets the go-ahead
Johannesburg, 28 January 2014:
The controversial w... Read more
Posted on the 16th January 2014
The mystery of why so many birds fly in a V formation may have been solved.
(This article first appeared in BBC NEWS: SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT on 16 January 2014. - Ed.)
Researcher Steven Portug... Read more
Posted on the 16th January 2014
CapeNature has compiled a draft Protected Area Management Plan (PAMP) for the De Mond Nature Reserve Complex consisting of Waenhuiskrans, De Mond and Soetendalsvlei Nature Reserves and has appointe... Read more
Posted on the 19th November 2013
Report power line related incidents. . .
An appeal to BirdLife South Africa members and the public
Eskom and the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) formalised their long-standing relationship b... Read more
Posted on the 18th November 2013
(This article originally appeared in the Spring 2013 Edition of BirdLife South Africa's IBA newsletter. - Ed.)
Every year the Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea leaves its breeding ground... Read more
Posted on the 18th November 2013
IBA Champion Dr Dave Whitelaw
After all the planning and strategising is done, it is the visible and practical conservation
of IBAs that is the key measure of our success. This conservation at ... Read more
