Citizen Scientist Day at Lowveld National Botanical Garden

7 March 2015 - 9:00am - 2:00pm

8 March 2015 - 9:00am - 2:00pm

 

Event category:

Talk / Lecture

Contact details:

Please visit sabap2.adu.org.za

Entrance charge:

Free

How to book:

No booking necessary

Event venue: Environmental Education Centre

Presented by the Animal Demographic Unit (ADU) from University of Cape Town. The ADU are the Project managers of the SABAP2 bird Atlasing project and have extended their facilities to encompass Arachnids, Butterflies and Reptiles. Thus it is fitting that this event be presented at the LNBG – which is a conservation area with significant Bio-Diversity.

Short presentations (20 Minutes) will cover all the areas that the ADU are involved in.

This event is being co-hosted by BirdLife Lowveld and Botanical Society Lowveld. It will be open to the public at no charge. Tea and Coffee will be provided. Attendees are invited to bring their own picnic baskets for lunch in the gardens surrounding the Lecture hall.
 

The Second Southern African Bird Atlas Project (SABAP2) is the most important bird conservation project in the region. It holds this status because all other conservation initiatives depend on the results of the bird atlas, to a greater or lesser extent. You cannot determine the conservation status of a species unless you know its range and how this is changing. So red-listing depends on the results of this project. So does the selection of sites and habitats critical to bird conservation. SABAP2 is the follow-up project to the Southern African Bird Atlas Project (for which the acronym was SABAP, and which is now referred to as SABAP1). This first bird atlas project took place from 1987-1991. The second bird atlas project started on 1 July 2007 and plans to run indefinitely.

To learn more about the ADU go to sabap2.adu.org.za