The field guide has outlined the butterfly life cycle exemplified by Papilio desmondi teita (Desmond’s Green Banded Swallowtail) that is endemic to the Taita Hills.

Euphaedra neophron (Gold Banded Forester Butterfly) basking.

Catopsilia florella (African Emigrant butterfly) foraging for nectar on flowers.

SANBI hosted sustainable land management and wildlife economy training in February 2021. These skills included in-field rangeland condition assessment and questionnaire technique training needed to gather critical information on South Africa’s wildlife economy for the National Biodiversity Economy Strategy implementation.

The butterfly field survey team in the Uluguru Mountains.

The understory bird field survey team in the East Usambara Mountains.

Sunbirds are the dominant vertebrate pollinator in Africa. More than two-thirds of all genera and nearly one-half of all known species of food plants of sunbirds in Africa are used by humans for medicine, food, building materials, and other uses. The Usambara Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris usambaricus shown here is one of the important focal sunbird species in the JRS-supported TAWIRI pollinator project in Tanzania.

Water access in Butembo, DR Congo