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Category: Karoo

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Boegoeberg Dam BioBash: Where Kalahari Meets Karoo

Posted on 18/10/2019 by Karis Daniel

The interface of Kalahari and Karoo is a study in contrasts: red sands and blue skies; dry earth and flowing river; bustling weaver colonies and deserted towns....

BDInsight/Biodiversity/BirdPix/Citizen Science/Karoo/MammalMAP/News/OdonataMAP/Virtual Museum

BDInsight – September 2019

Posted on 04/10/2019 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

September flew by! Where is the year going? We hope you are all enjoying the Spring weather and getting ready for a great Summer of biodiversity explorations an...

Archive/Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Karoo/MammalMAP/News/Virtual Museum

Rabbits at The Riverside

Posted on 08/09/2019 by Willem van der Merwe

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

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...

Biodiversity/Karoo/News

A Rainbow of Landscapes – PART ONE

Posted on 09/07/2019 by Willem van der Merwe

Biodiversity can be assessed at several levels. We can look at genetic diversity at species level, we can look at the diversity among different species, or we c...

Citizen Science/Karoo/Trip report/Virtual Museum

Namaqua BioBash 2019: Citizen Science in the Karoo

Posted on 25/06/2019 by Karis Daniel

Five days in the Northern Cape with a team of avid birders?! It sounds like a dream come true, and for me, that dream recently became a reality. Wednesday, June...

Biodiversity/Karoo/Site report/Virtual Museum

The BDI visits the Karoo Gariep Nature Reserve …

Posted on 30/05/2019 by Les Underhill

Within an hour of a dusk arrival at what was then known as the Karoo Gariep Nature Reserve (now the Khoisan Karoo Conservancy) … … we had not only b...

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