Guidelines for surveying and mitigating impacts on White-winged Flufftail in avifaunal assessments for development applications
Best Practice Guidelines for High-Elevation Wetland and Peatland Management in Southern Africa, Version 1.
Bird-friendly: Habitat management guidelines for the endemic birds of the Fynbos Biome
BirdLife South Africa. 2020. Black Harriers and Wind Energy: Guidelines for impact assessment, monitoring, and mitigation (compiled by Simmons RE, Ralston-Paton S, Colyn R and Garcia-Heras M-S).
https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/BLSA-Guidelines-Black-Harrier.pdf
BirdLife South Africa. 2018. Cape Vulture and Wind Farms: Guidelines for impact assessment, monitoring, and mitigation (compiled by Pfeiffer M and Ralston-Paton S).
https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BLSA-Guidelines-Cape-Vulture.pdf
BirdLife South Africa. 2021. Verreauxs’ Eagle and Wind Farms: Guidelines for impact assessment, monitoring, and mitigation (compiled by Samantha Ralston-Paton and Dr Megan Murgatroyd).
BirdLife South Africa. 2017. Birds & Solar Energy: Guidelines for assessing and monitoring the impact of solar power generating facilities on birds in Southern Africa (compiled by Jenkins AR, Ralston-Paton S and Smit-Robinson HA).
https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BLSA-Guidelines-Solar-and-Energy.pdf
Floating Wetlands: Increasing Biodiversity and Cleaning Water.
BirdLife South Africa. 2017. Wind energy’s impacts on birds in South Africa: A preliminary review of the results of operational monitoring at the first wind farms of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme in South Africa (compiled by Ralston-Paton S, Smallie J, Pearson A and Ramalho R).
BirdLife South Africa. 2013. A guide to building: Universally accessible bird hides (compiled by Retief E).
https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BLSA-Guidelines-Hides.pdf
BirdLife South Africa/ Endangered Wildlife Trust. 2015. Birds and Wind-Energy: Best Practice Guidelines (compiled by Jenkins AR, van Rooyen CS, Smallie JJ, Harrison JA, Diamond M, Smit-Robinson HA and Ralston S).
https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BLSA-Guidelines-Birds-and-Wind.pdf
BirdLife South Africa. 2019. National guidelines for interventions that relate to colonial breeding waterbirds causing human-wildlife conflict in South Africa (compiled by Harebottle DM, Smit-Robinson HA and Froneman A).
Guide to Access Avian Data for Environmental Impact Assessment Report
https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BLSA-Guidelines-Avian-Data-For-EIA-Report.pdf
Fences & Birds: Minimising unintended impacts.
https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BLSA-Guidelines-Fences-Birds.pdf
BirdLife South Africa. 2018. A guide to bird watching in & around Memel (compiled by Nuttall R, Retief E and Pretorius M).
https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BLSA-Guidelines-Memel-Birding-Routes.pdf
Voels van die Karoo – Ekologie en bewaring
https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Voels-van-die-Karoo-Ekologie-en-bewaring.pdf
Birds of the Karoo – Ecology and Conservation
A review of alternative area-based conservation mechanisms in South Africa
IUCN 2016. A Global Standard for the Identification of Key Biodiversity Areas, Version 1.0. First edition. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN
BirdLife South Africa. 2020. Assessing the Extent of OECMs in South Africa: Final Project Report (compiled by Marnewick D, Stevens C, Antrobus-Wuth R, Theron N, Wilson N, Naude K and Jonas H).
https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/OECM-Report-2020-Low_Res-1.pdf
SANBI. 2020. Biodiversity Stewardship Guideline. A guideline produced for the Department of Environmental Affairs. Developed by Wilson N, Kershaw P, Marnewick D and Purnell A.
https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Biodiversity-Stewardship-Guideline-2018.pdf
What we know, what we don’t know, and what we need to know to address the Pied Crow conundrum in South Africa.
Ntsikeni Nature Reserve is home to many threatened species inhabiting
sensitive habitats. Here are the Rules and Regulations for visitors at the Ntsikeni Nature Reserve.
https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/RULES-FOR-VISITING-BIRDERS-NTSIKENI_KL.pdf
Uys C, Smit-Robinson HA, Marnewick D. 2013. Bird-friendly burning and grazing best-practice for grasslands: Achieving bird conservation and economic grazing objectives together in South Africa’s grasslands. Unpublished report. Johannesburg: BirdLife South Africa.
Additional Bird-friendly burning and grazing best-practice for grasslands documents.
