On the road with Ross

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Seychelles is a tropical island paradise with a swathe of endemic species and stunning landscapes. Ross Wanless reports on his tuna commission meeting and finding endemic frogs, visiting a seabird island and seeing most of those endemic birds… Although I have visited the Seychelles several times while at BirdLife South Africa, always as part […]

On the road with Ross

It took two and a half weeks to crank through the staggering number of things to be done on my trip to the UK in July. The first stop was Cambridge for a series of meetings and events about the plans to eradicate mice from Gough and Marion islands. That process continued later in the […]

On the Road with Ross

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The workshop was part of our Common Oceans project, and the main element that Bronwyn Maree is running (as well as overseeing the delivery of the whole shebang). We were gathered to discuss the way forward for conducting the first ever evaluation of total seabird bycatch from tuna longliners in the Southern Ocean. Several […]

Working around the subregion

2016 was a very busy year for the Avitourism & Special Projects Programme, which has been involved in the East Atlantic Flyway Initiative, partner development work in southern Africa and the State of South Africa’s Birds Report and regional Red List publications, as well as the revived BirdLife South Africa Bird Guide Training Project. We […]

On the Road with Ross

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s time to go to Senegal again? This month’s travel insert sees Ross Wanless heading off to Dakar, where a cancelled meeting gave him a one-day window for some birding… It was my second trip to Dakar this year, and in fact I’ll be back there in three weeks’ time for another meeting. The […]