Wetlands & Human Wellbeing, Part 1
The Environmental Importance of Wetlands The following is an illustrated text version of a presentation entitle Wetlands & Human Wellbeing given…
Support Biodiversity by Protecting & Planting Indigenous Vegetation
The Smithsonian Institution (in Washington D.C., USA) is the world's largest complex of museums, with attendant education, and research facilities. The work of the…
KAZA TFCA: A Vision for a Nature-based & Biodiversity-driven Economy
INTRODUCTION Dr. Russell Taylor is, among other things, the Transboundary Conservation Planning Advisor for the World Wildlife Fund in Namibia. He…
BirdLife Zimbabwe
BirdLife Zimbabwe has a focus on birds, as the name suggests, but birds are just a part of the exceedingly complex…
Maintaining Bio-Diversity by Avoiding Artificial Pesticides
From Derek Solomon’s Gardening With Birds in Zimbabwe, published by Birds of a Feather (Pty)Ltd, Harare, 1992 A large proportion of…
Attracting Birds – and Supporting Biodiversity
by Derek & Sarah Solomon While birds are everywhere, they will only set up home in an area that is…
Southern Ground Hornbills
This post falls into two sections: The text and graphics of a BirdLife Zimbabwe presentation given by Peter Makhusa entitled "Where…
Jackals
Tourists on the lookout for The Big Five might not be impressed by the sight of a jackal but in many…
Butterflies: Endangered & In Need of Protection
This post follows on from the post on this site entitled “Butterflies and Moths: Why are they important?” where we looked…
Butterflies & Moths: Why are they important?
Introduction “Lepidoptera” is an order of insects that includes butterflies and moths. There are about 250,000 species of the Lepidoptera. This…
