Bird-friendly: Habitat management guidelines for the endemic birds of the Fynbos Biome


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. 2017. Verreauxs’ Eagle and Wind Farms: Guidelines for impact assessment, monitoring, and mitigation.
https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BLSA-Guidelines-Verreauxs-Eagle-and-Wind.pdf

Jenkins A.R, Ralston-Paton S & Smit-Robinson H.A. 2017. Birds & Solar Energy: Guidelines for assessing and monitoring the impact of solar power generating facilities on birds in Southern Africa.
https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BLSA-Guidelines-Solar-and-Energy.pdf

Floating Wetlands: Increasing Biodiversity and Cleaning Water.

Ralston-Paton S, Smallie J, Pearson A, Ramalho R. 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. BirdLife South Africa.

Retief E. 2013. A guide to building: Universally accessible bird hides.
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 A.R, van Rooyen C.S, Smallie J.J, Harrison J.A, Diamond M, Smit-Robinson H.A, Ralston S.
https://www.birdlife.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BLSA-Guidelines-Birds-and-Wind.pdf

Harebottle DM, Smit-Robinson H, Froneman A. 2019. National guidelines for interventions that relate to colonial breeding waterbirds causing human-wildlife conflict in South Africa. BirdLife South Africa, Johannesburg.

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

Nuttall R, Retief E, Pretorius M. 2018. A guide to bird watching in & around Memel.
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

Marnewick D, Stevens C, Antrobus-Wuth R, Theron N, Wilson N, Naude K, Jonas H. 2020. Assessing the Extent of OECMs in South Africa: Final Project Report. BirdLife South Africa, Johannesburg.
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
Uys C, Smit-Robinson H, 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.