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.

  • New office bearers

  • Conservation threats and habitat loss

  • West Coast Developments

  • SABAP2

  • BLSA matters

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2007

29 September Meeting, at Stanford House Stanford.

  • Western Cape Birding Route

  • SABAP2 launch W/Cape

  • Conservation issues

  • BLSA Awards

  • CBC 60th Anniversary 2008

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9 June 2007 Education Workshop, at the Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville.

  • Helderberg Nature Reserve

  • Tygerberg Nature Reserve

  • West Coast Field study Centre

  • Junior Bird Club

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9 June 2007 Meeting, at the Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville.

  • SABAP2

  • 12th Pan-African Ornithological Conference 7-12 September 2008

  • IBA Programme

  • Western Cape Birding Routes

  • National Rarities

  • CWAC and CAR

  • Conservation

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10 February 2007 Meeting, at the Helderberg Nature Reserve, Somerset West.

  • Rarities Committees

  • National Bird Week (30 April - 5 May 2007)

  • House Crows

  • Lourens River Tern Roost

  • Fish Kill at Rietvlei

  • Bird Flu

  • Western Cape Birding Route

  • West Coast Birding Route

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2005

8 October 2005 Meeting, at the Municipal Boardroom, Stanford.

  • Birding big day 2005

  • National Rareities Committee

  • SA Bird Atlas II

  • Concern about IBA's

  • Clean Marime Project

  • Conservation issues;

  • Silting up of estuaries

  • House Crows

  • 4 x 4's on beaches

  • Proposed Steenberg Road ext through Zandvlei

  • Hazardous waste site proposals

  • West Coast National Park

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 28 May 2005 Meeting, at the Blaauberg Environment Centre.

  • Tribute to Kirsten Louw.

  • BLSA funding of Regional Forums.

  • National Bird Week.

  • New bird club in the Witzenberg area.

  • Berg Catchment Management Agency. 

  • Stanford Birding Fair.

  • Conservation issues.

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26 February 2005 Meeting, at the Tygerberg Nature Reserve.

  • National Birding Week to be celebrated annually in May.

  • National Rarities Committee to be established with regional branches.

  • Birding Courses to be available from mid 2005.

  • An annual Stanford Birding fair to take place.

  • Conservation issues.

  • West Coast issues.

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2004

9 October 2004 Meeting, at the Municipal Boardroom, Stanford.

  • Gerhard Verdoorn, Director BLSA, intends the Society to be one of South Africa's foremost conservation bodies.

  • The strategy will be to move away from species based conservation and start working on Eco Region sites.

  • the BLSA, is to become the most prominent brand in conservation, in South Africa .

  • the goal is 1 million members by 2006.

  • 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.

  • Jan Fourie, Chairman of BLSA, emphasised that the Society's vision and primary purpose is to conserve birds and their habitats.

  • Samantha Peterson, Seabird Conservation Programme reports Scientific observers on South Africa's of fishing vessels 20% coverage.

  • Avitourism is a very important strategic initiative to create sources of funding for the Society.

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