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BirdLife South Africa works to conserve South Africa's birds and their habitats.
South Africa
Joined November 2009
🎉 Big win for people and the planet! 🌍🇿🇦 South Africa just became the 51st country to ban the toxic pesticide Terbufos! Goodbye, poison, hello progress! 🚫🐦🌾
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📷ONLY TEN DAYS REMAINING!.Don’t miss your chance to enter SA’s biggest and best photography competition! - Entries close midday, 18 July. Sign up here: Photography is one of the most powerful tools we have to empower conservation - and we want your help!
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🌿 This week, Dr Kyle Lloyd & Dr Marlize Muller dive into saving SA’s high-altitude wetlands and the rare White-winged Flufftail! 🐦💧For more information visit 🔗
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South Africa's best photography competition is back!.Visit to enter .The competition is open to any South African residents, and BirdLife South Africa members receive a generous discount to enter, and stand a chance to win an amazing suite of prizes
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Save the date for a birding bonanza in Pretoria!
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😱 Missed this week’s episode of Conservation Conversations? Don’t worry – catch it here 🎥 This episode featured Justin Henry who gave us an inside look at BLSA's work – from monitoring White-backed Vultures to fitting tracking devices on juveniles 🛰️🦅
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In honour of the intrepid runners who braved the long road to Durban during last weekend's Comrades Marathon, we got the best brains in ornithology to sit down, and imagine what races our favourite birds would run. Well done to all who got out there yesterday! 📷
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🌍✨ BirdLife South Africa celebrated International Day for Biodiversity with 50 enthusiastic Grade 9 learners from Gauteng at the beautiful Suikersbosrand Nature Reserve! 🐦🌱. A big thank you to our amazing partners, Joburg City Parks and the Gauteng Department of Environment🦜
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In a few months they'll be back, so we thought we'd give you a couple of ideas for things to do while they're gone, to help them have a happy welcome home!
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Celebrating World Migratory Bird Day. part 2!.10 May is a special day, as we bid migratory birds farewell from our skies.
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Join us as this week as we share more about the wonders of migration, and learn how all of us can help share our space with birds. #WorldMigratoryBirdDay #birdlife #birdlifeinternational
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One of our jobs is to make sure that there will always be safe places for migrants to return to. That's why we're tracking European Rollers as they make their way north, and protecting crucial habitats like the Berg River Estuary: 3/4
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Billions of birds make their way each year across vast oceans and scorching deserts, driven by changing seasons and a safe haven in which to breed. 2/4
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It's World Migratory Bird Day!🌍✈️. Today, we celebrate one of the world's most remarkable phenomenons: bird migration. 🧵1/4
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🐄💚 Big win for community & conservation! 57 cattle sold at the first Mabandla auction, raising R501K for 9 villages 🙌 All part of the Herding for Health initiative with BirdLife South Africa, blending sustainability with impact. 🌱🐦 #HerdingForHealth #CommunityEmpowerment
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Discovered in 1974, the Hooded Grebe was once thought safe in its remote Patagonian home—but by the 2000s, its population had dropped by 80%. Learn more about this species tomorrow night (📅15 April) at 19h00 (SAST) on #ConservationConversations. 🔗
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Five years of passion, persistence, and scientific curiosity are about to tell an extraordinary story. Stay tuned - the results are going to be EPIC! .4/4.(Photos 3-4: Warwick Tarboton).(#WildlifeConservation #OrnithologyResearch #WhiteWingedFlufftail #ScienceInAction
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The field season comes to an end as White-winged Flufftails disappear from the high-elevation wetlands along the eastern escarpment where the research focus is on for now. Until they return, the team will focus on other aspects of wetland conservation in the winter. 3/4
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