Friday, 10 May 2024
Smit E 2024. KAZA elephant survey lacks formal trend analysis.A new report by Elephants Without Borders (EWB), summarising aerial survey results from over a decade across
Southern Africa, found that overall, elephant numbers have not changed significantly.
The report added that while the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) aerial survey counted
227 900 elephants, it lacked any formal trend analysis.
The transboundary aerial survey of KAZA elephants was flown from August to October 2022.
KAZA includes Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, which share international borders along the
Okavango and Zambezi River…
Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Muller N 2024. South African abalone poaching fuels violence, threatens species.A suspicious vehicle was driving through the streets of Durban, South Africa, around 3:45 a.m.
with water leaking out of the back.
When police pulled over the red Toyota Condor they found eight bags of shelled abalone worth
about R500,000 (just more than $29,100), South African newspaper Daily Maverick reported.
The driver was arrested as it is illegal to harvest abalone without a permit under South African
law.
The mid-January incident is common in South Africa, where abalone poaching is often
controlled by gangs and linked to the devastating spread of crystal methamphetamine and…
Kopij G, Paxton M 2019. Waterbirds in the panhandle of the Okavango Delta: dry season counts over two seven-year periods. Zoology and Ecology (29) 15-27We counted waterbirds along a fixed route in the panhandle of the Okavango River in Mahango Game Reserve in the dry season during two seven-year periods (1991–1997 and 2000–2006). Palearctic migrants represented by 11 species in 1991–1997 and nine species in 2000–2006 together composed only a small percentage of all birds recorded in both periods. The two most numerous foraging guilds were birds foraging in shallow water and those foraging in deep water. The former guild was more numerous in 2000–2006, while the latter guild was more numerous in 1991–1997.
Paxton M 2013. KOAR Winter (July) Wetland Water-bird Counts, Okavango River 2012. Lanioturdus 46 (1) 21-24The Okavango River system, about 480 kms of which constitutes the border between Namibia and Angola, has previously been largely neglected in the annual wetland water-bird counts programme conducted throughout Namibia. The exceptions have been the Mahango Game Reserve and a section of the river at Shamvura Camp where voluntary wetland water-bird counts have however been conducted over a consecutive period of 15 years and 11 years respectively. The remainder of the river had been left uncounted until 2012.
Paxton M, Sheehan L 2002. Mahango bird count January 2002
. Lanioturdus
35 (4) 24-28
Paxton M, Sheehan L 2001. Mahango wetland bird count - January 2001
. Lanioturdus
34 (2) 2-7
Paxton M 2000. July wetland bird count - Mahango Game Reserve
. Lanioturdus
33 (1&2) 13-19
Paxton M, Sheehan L 1999. January wetland bird count in the Mahango Game Reserve, Kavango
. Lanioturdus
32 (1) 15-18
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