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The Cape Bird Club
Western Cape
Birding Forum
Now represents
8 clubs,
with more than 2,000 members in the Western Cape.

photograph by Morne Carstens
Orange throated longclaw
2008
23 February
Meeting, at Helderberg Nature Reserve Environment Centre, Somerset West.
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2007
29
September Meeting, at Stanford House Stanford.
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9 June 2007
Education Workshop, at the Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville.
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9 June 2007
Meeting, at the Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville.
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10 February 2007
Meeting, at the Helderberg Nature Reserve, Somerset West.
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2005
8 October
2005 Meeting, at the Municipal Boardroom, Stanford.
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Birding big day 2005
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National Rareities Committee
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SA Bird Atlas II
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Concern about IBA's
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Clean Marime Project
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Conservation issues;
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Silting up of estuaries
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House Crows
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4 x 4's on beaches
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Proposed Steenberg Road ext
through Zandvlei
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Hazardous waste site proposals
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West Coast National Park
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28 May
2005 Meeting, at the Blaauberg
Environment Centre.
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Tribute to Kirsten Louw.
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BLSA funding of Regional Forums.
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National Bird Week.
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New bird club in the Witzenberg
area.
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Berg Catchment Management
Agency.
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Stanford Birding Fair.
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Conservation issues.
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26 February
2005 Meeting, at the Tygerberg
Nature Reserve.
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National Birding Week to
be celebrated annually in May.
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National Rarities Committee to
be established with regional branches.
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Birding Courses to be available
from mid 2005.
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An annual Stanford Birding fair
to take place.
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Conservation issues.
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West Coast issues.
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2004
9 October
2004 Meeting, at the Municipal Boardroom, Stanford.
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Gerhard Verdoorn, Director
BLSA, intends the Society to be one of South Africa's foremost conservation bodies.
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The strategy will be to move away from
species based conservation and start working on Eco Region sites.
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the BLSA, is to become the most prominent
brand in conservation, in South Africa .
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the goal is 1 million members by 2006.
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BirdLife Overberg is launched to form satellite branches,
to enable communities to be involved in avi-tourism and conservation at a local level.
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26 June 2004
Meeting, at the Kristo Pienaar Centre, Tygerberg Nature Reserve.
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Jan Fourie, Chairman of
BLSA, emphasised that the Society's vision and primary purpose is to
conserve birds and their habitats.
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Samantha Peterson, Seabird
Conservation Programme reports Scientific observers on South Africa's
of fishing vessels 20% coverage.
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Avitourism is a very important
strategic initiative to create sources of funding for the Society.
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