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The BDI visits Roam Private Game Reserve

Posted on 03/09/2019 by Les Underhill

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/Biodiversity/Bird ringing/Citizen Science/News/Virtual Museum

BDInsight – August 2019

Posted on 29/08/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

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 ...

Seychelles Magpie Robin
Bird ringing

Seychelles bird longevities

Posted on 29/08/2019 by Dieter Oschadleus

During August 2019 bird ringing training courses were held on Aride and on Cousin Islands in the Seychelles. Some interesting longevity records were obtained. M...

Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/Data and statistics/LepiMAP/MammalMAP/News/OdonataMAP

Swaziland Superwoman!…BDI interviews conservation scientist Kate Braun

Posted on 28/08/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

I was employed as Ecologist/Research Officer by the Swaziland National Trust Commission (now Eswatini National Trust Commission), the parastatal organisation re...

Biodiversity/Bird ringing/Citizen Science/Data and statistics/News

Chicks of the Wetlands – White-Winged Flufftails

Posted on 26/08/2019 by Willem van der Merwe

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...

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Biodiversity Superhero… BDI interviews citizen scientist Owolabi Bibitayo Ayobami

Posted on 16/08/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

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...

Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/LepiMAP/MammalMAP/News/Virtual Museum

Always on the move… BDI interviews citizen scientist Joan Young

Posted on 13/08/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

“I have spent nearly 40 years living and working in the bush, loving every minute of every day. When I started with macro photography, I discovered a whol...

Biodiversity/Citizen Science/News

The Bald and the Beautiful

Posted on 07/08/2019 by Willem van der Merwe

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...

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The Comrades Butterfly… BDI interviews citizen scientist Luelle Watts

Posted on 05/08/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

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...

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Spreading the Seeds of Light

Posted on 30/07/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

On Saturday, 20 July 2019, I was lucky enough to join the Saturday Girls for their Career Guidance Day at the New Dawn Centre in Acornhoek, Mpumalanga. I was as...

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