PRESS RELEASE: Local community helps to save seabirds

Cape Town, 29 April 2010: A remarkable partnership has formed to help save albatrosses and other seabirds from extinction. BirdLife South Africa and WWF-SA have pulled together Japanese longline fishermen, plastics and rope manufacturers and a community of challenged people in the coastal village of Ocean View. Saving seabirds from extinction is simpler than it [...]

PRESS RELEASE: Kamfers Dam: on the brink of collapse?

Kimberley may soon lose one of its most well-known attractions as deteriorating water quality and increasing water levels make Kamfers Dam progressively more unsuitable for Lesser Flamingos. A recent water quality study, conducted by Dr Jan Roos from Water Quality Consultants in Bloemfontein, has found that Kamfers Dam’s water quality has deteriorated significantly during the [...]