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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...

Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Citizen scientist profile/Data and statistics/LepiMAP/News/Virtual Museum

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...

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

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...

Biodiversity/Citizen Science/News/Trip report

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...

Bird ringing/Citizen Science

Peregrine takes plover

Posted on 24/07/2019 by Dieter Oschadleus

On 14 November 2016 Kyle Walker collected Peregrine pellets in Scarborough, Cape Town, in on-going monitoring of Peregrine nests on the Cape Peninsula. Kyle was...

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A Rainbow of Landscapes – PART THREE

Posted on 23/07/2019 by Willem van der Merwe

Today our journey continues onward to the KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape midlands. The midlands are mostly undulating, moist grasslands, but there are lovely &#...

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Africa is home… BDI interviews citizen scientist Chris Meyer

Posted on 19/07/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

How did you become a citizen scientist? What was the catalyst that got you going? Having spent my early years growing up on a farm in Zimbabwe, then spending ma...

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