Steven Germishuizen
A conservation strategy for the plantation industry and the role of certification … Continue reading →
Tim O'Conner
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: A review of bush-encroachment in southern Africa: changes and causes … Continue reading →
Kevin Kirkman
Cross-continental comparison of fire and grazing influence on vegetation diversity … Continue reading →
Ricky Taylor
Land use and water resources management – afforestation impacts in the Maputaland Coastal Plain … Continue reading →
Ian Engelbrecht
Environmental diversity as a surrogate for species diversity: an assessment … Continue reading →
Paul Gordijn
Assessment of long-term changes in grassland composition in relation to fire treatment in the Cathedral Peak research catchments … Continue reading →
Ed Granger
Fire regime, fire frequency and the survival of Protea roupelliae subsp. roupelliae Meisn. in the Sani Valley, uKhahlamba-Drakensberg … Continue reading →
Navashni Govender
Comparing two fire management strategies in the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park: consequences for fire regimes and biodiversity … Continue reading →
Charmaine Drury
Floristics of KwaZulu-Natal Sandstone Sourveld within the eThekwini Municipal Area, an island biogeography study … Continue reading →
Sizwe Hlatshwayo
Mapping wood density variation and canopy cover percentage in the KwaZulu-Natal Sandstone Sourveld using Worldview-2 … Continue reading →
Alan Short
Reviving range monitoring using fixed-point photographs and field measurements in Marakele Park, Limpopo Province, South Africa … Continue reading →
Kevin McCann
Introduction to Special Session … Continue reading →
Jessica Cockburn
Stewardship: what does it mean? … Continue reading →
Cobus Theron
Barriers to the successful implementation of Biodiversity Stewardship initiatives in South Africa … Continue reading →
Susan Viljoen
Lessons learnt from implementation of Catchment Stewardship Tools in the Upper uMngeni … Continue reading →
Greg Marindale
Development of a wild game certification scheme in KwaZulu-Natal biodiversity stewardship sites … Continue reading →
Isabel Johnson
Threatened plant species and vegetation types in KwaZulu-Natal: the role of the Biodiversity Stewardship Programme in ensuring their survival … Continue reading →
Stefan Foord
Surrogates of spider diversity, leveraging the conservation of a poorly known group in the Savanna Biome of South Africa … Continue reading →
Vusani Mauda
Ant diversity in an arid peri-urban landscape of the Vhembe Biosphere, South Africa … Continue reading →
Mark Robertson
Ant diversity across an altitudinal gradient in the Maloti-Drakensberg … Continue reading →
Sandi Willows-Munro
DNA barcoding of urban environments: a look at the invertebrate diversity in the eThekwini Municipal Area (South Africa) … Continue reading →
Sanelisiwe Duze
The utility of DNA barcoding in Diptera of eThekwini … Continue reading →
Ashrenee Govender
DNA barcoding of Hemiptera in an urban environment (eThekwini, South Africa) … Continue reading →
Louis du Preez
Are our frogs about to croak? … Continue reading →
Mea Trenor
Population level conservation strategy of the critically endangered Pickersgill’s Reed Frog (Hyperolius pickersgilli) … Continue reading →
Esther Matthew
Operant conditioning of dogs for use in amphibian conservation ecology … Continue reading →
Michelle Delport
Do parasites pose a threat to frogs? … Continue reading →
Zoegne Du Preez
The use of electronic information services to evaluate the status of amphibian conservation in South Africa … Continue reading →
Abigail Pretorius
Behaviour, thermoregulation and skin pathogen control in Chiromantis xerampelina … Continue reading →
Tim O'Connor
Simplification of the composition, diversity and structure of woody vegetation in a semi-arid African savanna reserve following the re-introduction of elephants … Continue reading →
Paul Gordijn
Elephant movement and impact on woody vegetation, Ithala Game Reserve … Continue reading →
Jeanetta Selier
Transfrontier elephant populations: challenges to their management … Continue reading →
Bulelani Dayonase
Predator prey relationships, prey selection and effects on threatened species to inform risk management, after the reintroduction of lion to Mountain Zebra National Park … Continue reading →
Nicky McLeod
Changing tack: alternative management approaches for controlling the spread of invasive wattle in communal landscape … Continue reading →
Bheka Memela
Reflection: engaging Ingonyama land stakeholders for biodiversity stewardship partnership in the eThekwini Municipal Area … Continue reading →
Lutendo Mugwedi
Restoration planning for Buffelsdraai landfill site in the eThekwini Municipality … Continue reading →
Natasha Govender
One piece at a time: the makings of a nature reserve … Continue reading →
Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman
The South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA) – the way forward … Continue reading →
Carmen Jacobs
Documenting South Africa’s dung beetle diversity (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae; Scarabaeinae) … Continue reading →
James Pryke
Documenting South Africa’s dung beetle diversity (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae; Scarabaeinae) … Continue reading →
Mark Robertson
Using atlas datasets for making more informed conservation decisions … Continue reading →
Tanya Smith
Wattled Crane: Symbols of Water, Wetlands and Life. How to conserve this Critically Endangered Species? … Continue reading →
Frik Lemmer
Foraging range, airspace and habitat use of Cape Vultures (Gyps coprotheres) in the Northern Maloti-Drakensberg … Continue reading →
Sven Ragaller
Stony point: African Penguin management in a residential area … Continue reading →
Simon Morgan
Wildlife ACT monitoring … Continue reading →
Natasha Kruger
The importance of crabs and clawed frogs for the kangaroo leech Marsupiobdella africana (Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae) … Continue reading →
Jean Verster
Predation success of native and invasive fish species as biological control for mosquitoes … Continue reading →
Xander Combrink
Home ranges of Nile crocodiles in the Lake St Lucia estuarine system … Continue reading →
Julia Van Schalkwyk
All corridors are equal, but some are more equal than others – dung beetle and ant assemblage responses to grassland corridor size within a timber production landscape … Continue reading →
Mervyn Mansell
Afrotropical Neuroptera and Megaloptera (Insecta) Biodiversity Database … Continue reading →
Burgert Muller
Digitisation projects at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum and their potential importance to conservation … Continue reading →
Megan Loftie-Eaton
The power of citizen science at the Animal Demography Unit … Continue reading →
Connal Eardley
The importance of accurate biodiversity information: an atlassing perspective … Continue reading →
Taryn Gilroy
Satellite tracking priority species … Continue reading →
Sharon Louw
Augmentation of the critically endangered species, Aloe saundersiae … Continue reading →
Suvarna Parbhoo
Citizen scientists making significant contributions to the conservation of threatened plants … Continue reading →
Paul Cryer
Conservation in an uncertain future: is there social and institutional backing? … Continue reading →
Heather Tarrapon
Encompassing provincial monitoring within the National Monitoring Framework … Continue reading →
Matt Pretorius
Wildlife and Energy Programme – partnership with Eskom … Continue reading →
Neal Haddaway
Knowledge brokering on the conservation front lines … Continue reading →
Cameron Mclean
Durban’s Systematic Biodiversity Plan: refining environmental planning at a local level … Continue reading →
Dominic Wieners
Conservation plans: Do we have too many? An implementation perspective … Continue reading →
Felicity Elliot
What does SPLUMA mean for the securing of the KwaZulu-Natal biodiversity network? … Continue reading →
Sean Porter
Marine biodiversity and protected area targets – a global review with recommendations for South Africa … Continue reading →
Richard Boon
Description of the vegetation types of the eThekwini Municipal Area circa 1850 as a baseline for the preparation of a fine-scale systematic biodiversity plan … Continue reading →
Rashieda Davids
Incorporating ecosystem service hotspots into urban conservation planning … Continue reading →
Siran Offman
Socioeconomic impact of marine invertebrates collection on Chuiba and Maringanha beaches … Continue reading →
Coert Geldenhuis
Assessing access, util. & mngt of marine resources at uMthwalume … Continue reading →
Sizwe Nkambule
Biodiversity conservation and utilisation in peri-urban communities: experiences from Inanda and Buffelsdraai … Continue reading →
Scotty Kyle
Subsistence vs. commercial: use and abuse of our living natural resources … Continue reading →
Sifiswo Keswa
Comparison of medicinal trees densities in False Bay Park and on the Nibela Peninsula … Continue reading →
Sarah Findlay
Clearing the confusion: the roles of local formal institutions in regulating firewood harvesting in Bushbuckridge, South Africa … Continue reading →
Adrian Armstrong
Lending a helping hand (or ear) to KwaZulu-Natal’s threatened frogs: provincial monitoring protocols and citizen science to implement these … Continue reading →
Joanita Viviers
Pit tagging as a tool in monitoring amphibian populations … Continue reading →
Donovan Kruger
Effect of airplane noise on the calls of the critically endangered Pickersgill’s reed frog, implications for passive acoustic monitoring of an endangered species … Continue reading →
Edward Netherlands
Passive acoustic monitoring of amphibians in the Ndumo Game Reserve … Continue reading →
Lize Brown
Monitoring the calling activity responses of Quecket’s River Frog (Amietia quecketti) to changes in atmospheric conditions … Continue reading →
Nandipha Bhengu
Monitoring of South Africa’s Protected Areas Management Effectiveness: a national evaluation of progress since 2010 baseline study, using METT … Continue reading →
Judy Mann
Leaping into action – the role of ex situ in in situ amphibian conservation … Continue reading →
Catherine Namono
Challenges of cultural heritage conservation and mining on the Makgabeng Plateau, Limpopo Province, South Africa … Continue reading →
Pascall Taruvinga
From the island to the mainland; delineation of physical boundaries of World Heritage properties in Africa … Continue reading →
Annie Van de Venter-Radford
Rock art tourism and conservation: lessons from the Ukhahlamba-Drakensberg Mountains World Heritage Site … Continue reading →
Annie Van de Venter-Radford
A tale of two parks: comparing rock art management practices in Kakadu National park, Australia and the Maloti-Drakensberg Park … Continue reading →
Michelle Dye
Terrestrial laser scanning as a tool to improve management of cultural heritage in protected areas … Continue reading →
Liza Le Roux
Temporal changes in the large herbivore fauna of Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park … Continue reading →
Joris Comsigt
Rhino and former human land use as important drivers of heterogeneity and biodiversity in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park … Continue reading →
Adrian Shrader
Using spatial and social ecology for habitat and population management of white and black rhinos … Continue reading →
Cleo Gosling
Determinants of vegetation patterns in Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park … Continue reading →
Tlou Masehala
Why honeybee forage resources are essential for crop pollination services in South Africa: Results from the Honeybee Forage Project … Continue reading →
Matt Dicken
Socio-economic aspects of the Sodwana Bay SCUBA diving industry, with a specific focus on sharks … Continue reading →
Nonhle Mngadi
Lessons from evaluating the value contribution of marine resources to livelihoods options of some coastal communities of KwaZulu-Natal … Continue reading →
Matthieu Rouget
Mapping ecological infrastructure in the uMgeni catchment … Continue reading →
Natalie Rebelo Da Silva
Tried and tested: approaches to improve research uptake … Continue reading →
Harrier Davies-Mostert
Using conservation evidence to make mammal management more effective … Continue reading →
Celine Gossa
Mind the gap! How conservation practitioners and researchers exchange scientific information in conservation science … Continue reading →
Jeanne Tarrant
Evidence-based conservation for amphibians: relevance for South Africa … Continue reading →
Che Weldon
Considerations for invasive disease surveillance from an amphibian host perspective … Continue reading →
Cliff Dlamini
Management and control strategies of invasive alien plant species in Swaziland: An overview … Continue reading →
Colette Terblanche
Famine weed – a way forward … Continue reading →
Jorge Renteria
Potential distribution and habitat susceptibility of emerging invasive alien plant species in South Africa … Continue reading →
Warren Schmidt
Removing invasive animals: recent case studies in South Africa and the importance of communication … Continue reading →
Coena Cholo
People and parks programme in South Africa: “Conservation for the people with the people” … Continue reading →
Ruth Kruger
Vulnerability, parks and people: lessons from land claims on protected areas … Continue reading →
Lieneke De Visser
The KAZA project: integration or alienation? … Continue reading →
Roger Porter
Challenges faced in nominating the Okavango Delta, Botswana to be listed a World Heritage Site … Continue reading →
Ursula Franke
Conserving Chrissiesmeer: developing a management plan for Mpumalanga’s largest Protected Environment … Continue reading →
Neo Mathola
You can’t go back and sample the past! … Continue reading →
Peter Taylor
Afromontane small mammals feel the heat … Continue reading →
Rowan Buhrmann
Effects of simulated elevated temperatures on KwaZulu-Natal Sandstone Sourveld vegetation … Continue reading →
Lyle Ground
The coastal grasslands of the eThekwini Municipality: a floristic investigation with focus on climatic and disturbance drivers of species richness and species composition variation across patches … Continue reading →
Bheka Nxele
Climate change adaptation in eThekwini Municipality: implementation challenges on Ingonyama Trust Land … Continue reading →
Lucas Letsoalo
The effect of livestock grazing systems on rangeland condition of the emerging farmers of Gauteng province, South Africa … Continue reading →
Inam Yekwayo
Effect of the surrounding grassland and pine plantation on natural forest arthropod assamblages within Kwa-Zulu Natal timber production areas … Continue reading →
Patrick Khubeka
Congruency of selected biological indicators to Wet-Health scores: simplifying the assessment of agricultural impacts on wetlands in the KZN Midlands … Continue reading →
Amy Harvey
Possible effects of agricultural pesticides on tadpoles … Continue reading →