First draft of new generation maps for dragonflies and damselflies
The map below shows coverage for OdonataMAP. There are records for only 1,101 of the 2,014 grid cells of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. That’s a lit...
Category: Biodiversity
There Be Dragons…
Dragons do exist, and they’ve been around for over 300 million years! They might not breathe fire, but they do have six legs, four wings, and extremely keen eye...
Rabbits at The Riverside
When people think of threatened species, they tend to think of big and “spectacular” species like whales, tigers, rhinos, or pandas. It is true that...
Biodiversity/BirdPix/Citizen Science/Karoo/LepiMAP/MammalMAP/News/OdonataMAP/Site report/Trip report/Virtual Museum
The BDI visits Roam Private Game Reserve
Five years ago, the Post family bought a 5000 ha property in the Karoo which had been used for hunting, turned it into a biodiversity conservation area, and ren...
BDInsight – August 2019
August has flown by! And soon the migrant birds will arrive back in South Africa. We look forward to welcoming them back in the southern hemisphere. August has ...
Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/Data and statistics/LepiMAP/MammalMAP/News/OdonataMAP
Swaziland Superwoman!…BDI interviews conservation scientist Kate Braun
I was employed as Ecologist/Research Officer by the Swaziland National Trust Commission (now Eswatini National Trust Commission), the parastatal organisation re...
Chicks of the Wetlands – White-Winged Flufftails
What you see here is something very few people have ever seen in the wild. I haven’t seen any myself, yet. All I’ve seen is a sad little stuffed specimen in t...
Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/Data and statistics/LepiMAP/News/Virtual Museum
Biodiversity Superhero… BDI interviews citizen scientist Owolabi Bibitayo Ayobami
Owolabi Bibitayo Ayobami is a lecturer at the Department of Wildlife and Ecotourism Management at Osun State University in Osogbo, Nigeria. He is also busy with...
The Bald and the Beautiful
Today I want to share one of my paintings that celebrates the beauty of the Southern Bald Ibis, Geronticus calvus. This species is near and dear to me.&nbs...
The Comrades Butterfly… BDI interviews citizen scientist Luelle Watts
Luelle Watts is an amazing woman and LepiMAPper extraordinaire. She has snapped and mapped 1632 LepiMAP records to date, all while training for South AfricaR...