by Zander Liebenberg | Apr 16, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Hunting, once a daily practice of gathering food for the family or village, is now a real controversy among environmental advocates. Wildlife Conservation is the practice of protecting wild species and their habitats, in order to prevent species from becoming extinct....
by Zander Liebenberg | Jun 6, 2019 | Blogs, Uncategorized
South Africa’s rainfall statistics fluctuates from year to year, however, the annual average rainfall is 490mm which is half of the world average. The Aquastat database of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nation indicated that South Africa is...
by Zander Liebenberg | May 9, 2019 | Blogs, Uncategorized
(Image Courtesy of Andy Murch) Derivation of scientific name In 1856, Bonaparte described the African Black Oystercatcher as a species for the first time. He named the species ‘moquini’ after Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin Tandon. The genus name, Haematopus,...
by Zander Liebenberg | Apr 12, 2019 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Origin and Distribution Pompom weed has a wide natural distribution that extends from Argentina in South America to Costa Rica and Honduras in Central America and Mexico. How or when the plant was introduced into South Africa remains unknown. The earliest record in...
by Zander Liebenberg | Apr 11, 2019 | Blogs, Uncategorized
The most common definition of rehabilitation is “the process of returning the land in a given area to some degree of its former state, after some process (mining, natural disasters, etc.) has resulted in its damage.” However, it is important when conducting the...
by Zander Liebenberg | Apr 11, 2019 | Blogs, Uncategorized
GENERAL: The secretarybird or secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) is a very large, mostly terrestrial bird of prey. Endemic to Africa, it is usually found in the open grasslands and savannah of the sub-Saharan region. Although a member of the order...
