By Hennie de Beer, Tamanna Patel, Matt Pretorius, Oscar Mohale, Kish Chetty South Africa’s Wind Energy Facilities (WEF) track bird activities closely, before and after construction. Power lines get no such attention once they run beyond a facility’s own footprint. … Read more
Hennie de Beer, Tamanna Patel, Matt Pretorius, Oscar Mohale, Kish Chetty Pre-construction monitoring cannot predict everything. Once infrastructure is operating, post-construction monitoring tracks what happens and adaptive management responds. Addressing problems during operation is almost always more costly than getting … Read more
The Crane Census is back! Success will depend on the input of citizen scientists, writes Lara Fuller, Drakensberg Project manager, African Crane Conservation Programme. The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) and International Crane Foundation (ICF) partnership has been working on crane conservation … Read more
Interactions between plants and insects have evolved over the past 100 million years, resulting in the most fascinating and bizarre adaptations by both parties, writes Renier Basson, senior field officer, Drylands Strategic Conservation Landscape, Endangered Wildlife Trust. Across South Africa, … Read more
Jacquie van der Westhuizen, senior EWT field officer reports back on a wonderful new development. For the last couple of years, we have been getting reports of a lone Wattled Crane hanging around with some Blue Cranes in Mpumalanga. Never … Read more
Steve Vincent reports back on the first two official field trips to the nearby De Berg Nature Reserve. The two Friends of Verloren Valei (FVV) field trips to De Berg took place on 21 and 28 February 2026. I previously … Read more
A bold new scheme to link protection of our grasslands as part of efforts to reduce the carbon footprint has been initiated in South Africa, writes the Endangered Wildlife Trust. More than 90,000 hectares of irreplaceable Grasslands will now be … Read more
Walkersons Hotel and Spa, wetlands, flufftails and more – what could be more appealing? The 2026 Flufftail Festival lectures will be hosted by Walkersons Hotel and Spa in Dullstroom. Book your spot. For more information, please contact the Empowering People Project Manager, … Read more
A group of lucky people explored a part of the reserve few members of the public get to see. Steve Vincent reports back. Map showing the blocks into which the reserve is divided. These blocks are burned in rotation each … Read more
Matt Pretorius, Project Manager: Wildlife & Infrastructure descripes a new initiative to help ensure that the impact on birds of the shift towards wind energy is reduced as much as possible. Editor’s note: It is one of the great ironies … Read more
