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APPEAL: PLEASE CONSIDER CHASING PELICANS NEXT SUMMER
Five BirdLife Overberg members entertained us over the last week while they were 'chasing pelicans' on Jutten Island. We have attempted to report on their adventures on a day-by-day basis a... Read moreAPPEAL AGAINST SWELLENDAM WINDFARM PROJECT
(Dr. Stuart Shearer, on behalf of BirdLife Overberg, has submitted the appeal form against the authorisation for the Biotherm wind energy project at Uitkyk/ Excelsior near Swellendam. Here it is... Read moreSTUART APPEALS AGAINST KLIPHEUWEL/ DASSIESFONTEIN WIND FARMS
APPEAL AGAINST ENV. AUTHORISATION FOR WIND ENERGY FACILITY 2011-09-05 (Dr. Stuart Shearer has (on behalf of BirdLife Overberg) appealed against the Environmental Authorisation for the application&nb... Read moreTROUBLE AT STONY POINT?
Several groups of birders visited Stony Point on 28 and 19 May as part of the Biodiversity Festival at Harold Porter. Stony Point is the only breeding colony of African Penguin where these bird'... Read moreCOMMENTS ON WIND MONITORING MASTS: BREDASDORP & SWELLENDAM
(Herewith we load Stuart Shearer's comments on the draft Basic Assessment Report for the erection of wind monitoring masts near Swellendam and Bredasdorp. We full support his stance. - Ed.... Read moreAPPEAL FOR HELP FROM SAVE BANTAMSKLIP
Dear Save Bantamsklip supporters, We have the unique opportunity of being able to publicise our cause at two upcoming events in Hermanus, namely: The Flower and Eco-Fair at Fernkloof - 17th to 20th ... Read moreSITES FOR HOTTENTOT BUTTONQUAILS IN THE OVERBERG
(Gordon Botha forwarded the following details concerning two sites in the Overberg where Hottentot Buttonquails could be found). The Arabella spot: I don’t have the GPS coordinates. Coming from... Read moreCORPORATES COULD GET INVOLVED IN BIRD CONSERVATION
2009-08-03 Johannesburg: E Oppenheimer & Son, a company long associated with conservation work in South Africa, recently took the innovative step of signing up its entire staff, totalling almost ... Read moreHOTTENTOT BUTTONQUAIL WEST OF ELIM
Surveyed a pentad west of Elim yesterday - very nice piece of protected fynbos. In a 2km drive along a ridge-line track, we counted a dozen or more Hottentot Buttonquail, mostly at less than 20 m as t... Read moreTHE NATURAL BREACHING OF THE BOTRIVERVLEI
Hi everybody Those of you who attended the TBC’s meeting tonight have already heard the news, but for the sake of the rest of our regular CWAC’ers, I received confirmation that the Botriv... Read moreSAVE BANTAMSKLIP
(We have received this notice from interim committee of the Save Bantamsklip campaign - Ed.) Dear Interested & Affected Parties, The newly established Save Bantamsklip campaign is a confederatio... Read moreAFRICAN PENGUINS GET A CHAMPION
African Penguins have been sliding towards extinction since industrial fishing started around the Cape. The last four years have seen a population crash. BirdLife South African has found someone to ch... Read moreWE OBJECT TO ESKOM AT BANTAMKLIP
(BirdLife South Africa and its regional branches have already registered as Interested and Affected Parties as part of the EIA processes regarding ESKOM's proposed nuclear power station at Bantamklip ... Read moreDYER ISLAND NEWS
(Herewith news on seabirds taken from the January newsletter of the Dyer Island Conservation Trust). The African penguins Spheniscus demersus are coming toward the end of their moult cycle on Dyer Is... Read moreNo Current Conservation Articles
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