Birds of Fort Fordyce Reserve
Craig AJFK, and Hulley PE. 2020. The birds of Fort Fordyce Reserve, Eastern Cape. Biodiversity Observations 11.1:1-16 Biodiversity Observations is an open acces...
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Industrial Biodiversity 2 : Black River in Paarden Eiland. Novel ecosystem
This remarkable 200-m section of the Black River in Paarden Eiland is a novel ecosystem. There are many bird species breeding and feeding. It is a biodiversity ...
Biodiversity/Citizen Science/Karoo/LepiMAP/MammalMAP/OdonataMAP/Site report/Trip report/Virtual Museum
Boegoeberg Dam BioBash: Where Kalahari Meets Karoo
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....
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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...
The birth of the PanGoPod
Last Saturday, 22 June 2019, Les Underhill and I were lucky enough to join in for the very special occasion of handing over the keys of PanGoPod Alpha to its fi...
The BDI visits the Karoo Gariep Nature Reserve …
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...
Ringing at Sonop farm, Paardeberg
Paardeberg Inselberg is surrounded by vineyards and farms, but patches of fynbos, trees, farm dams, homestead gardens provide varied habitat and good diversity ...
Paardeberg site report – 2018/04/07
By Les Underhill. Photo credits: Les Underhill & Dieter Oschadleus Team BDI explored the northwest corner of the Paardeberg on Saturday 7 April 2018. We vis...
Lacewings at Little England, Beaufort West
Report by Les Underhill Lacewings are not one of the charismatic groups of insects, and have been poorly studied. They consume aphids and do pollination, so the...