INTERNATIONAL VULTURE AWARENESS DAY 2011 (PDF File)

The Endangered Wildlife Trust in collaboration with the Vulture Programme of the Rhino & Lion Wildlife Conservation NPO and BirdLife South Africa will be hosting a fun?filled family day at the Vulture Programme’s rehabilitation centre near Hartbeespoort Dam. The purpose of this day is to create awareness of the continued plight of all vulture species and to highlight the work done by conservationists to monitor populations and implement effective measures to conserve these birds and their habitats.

Yvonne Fontyn trains her binoculars on the growing avitourism industry

Original article from the Financial Mail .

“It’s more than an obsession, it’s an addiction,” said Ben King, one of the foremost birders in the world, who runs KingBird Tours in New York.

King was chatting to a group who were attending the first Global Birdwatchers’ Conference, held in November in Jamnagar in the state of Gujarat, India.

Visiting the nearby Khijadiya Bird Sanctuary, and observing the expensive equipment people were lugging around — the telescopes, the Rolls-Royces of binoculars and long-range cameras — I could only agree with him.