News: Prey for penguins; What’s in a name?; A star is born; Flood impact on wetland birds
To stem the African Penguin’s
slide to extinction, government
support for optimal no-take
zones around South Africa’s
penguin colonies is critical.
BirdLife South Africa’s Seabird
Conservation team explains the
imperative for implementing
effective island closures in a bid
to save the species.
Midrand marvel
Gauteng birders don’t need to travel far to get their
feathery fix. Midway between Johannesburg and Pretoria, Glen Austin Pan has become a favourite patch for this returnee expat.
It’s black and white
African Penguin|Alistair McInnes|black rhino|CapeNature|Christina Hagen|Dassen Island|De Hoop Nature Reserve|Department of Forestry|DFFE|Dyer Island|editorial|endangered|Fisheries and the Environment|guano|Mark Anderson|overfishing|rhino|rhinocerous|Robben Island|SANCCOB|seabirds|St Croix Island|Stony Point|Tegan Carpenter-Kling|white rhino|WWF-SA
Ice bound: journey to the end of the earth; Help us help: White-winged Flufftails; Five-year plans: developing conservation programme strategies; Owl Awards 2021; Resistance to mining at Mabola; Finding Cape Rockjumpers
“Critically Endangered”|”Hanneline Smit-Robinson”|”Warwick Tarboton”|Adelie Penguin|Alistair McInnes|Antarctica|colony count|Department of Forestry|donations|Emperor Penguin|Fisheries and the Environment|fundraising|Kyle Lloyd|Makhudu Masotla|Matthew Spoor|Melissa Whitecross|Nicholas Bunn|Polar Skua|SA Agulhas|seabirds|Sipho Ndebele|Snow Petrel|South African National Antarctic Expedition|Southern ocean|Tegan Carpenter-Kling|Wandering Albatross
News: Gritty reality; Working mothers; Helping hands; Shore leave; Sunbird service providers; Long-distance visitor
Andile Mdluli|Ardenna tenuirostris|Bethany Clark|Birdlife International|Cape Cormorant|chicks|CSIRO|Department of Forestry|DFFE|Fisheries and the Environment|GPS tracking|Kelp Gull|Lauren Roman|mass mortality|migrating seabirds|Morus bassanus|Northern Gannets|plastic|pumice|Robben Island|Sacred Ibis|SANCCOB|Scott Bryan|Short-tailed Shearwaters|Stephen Votier|Two Oceans Aquarium
Vested interests: The complicated balancing act of subsistence farming and nature conservation in Ndumo Game Reserve
Ndumo Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal has been justifiably renowned for its magnificent avifauna
by generations of birders – some 430 species have been recorded there. But as humans increasingly
encroach on the reserve, its habitats and abundance are under threat. Tony Carnie examines
the significant challenges now facing Ndumo.