East Usambara Forest, Tanzania.

The site is surrounded by bustling suburbs and associated with a wastewater treatment works, but is a haven for birds due to the wide range of semi-natural wetland habitats. Management and manipulation of water levels has resulted in a combination of deep and shallow open water, seasonal ponds, beds of reeds and sedges, sandy shorelines, islands and constructed platforms.

Large populations of threatened and near-threatened Greater and Lesser Flamingo and Great White Pelican frequent False Bay Nature Reserve.

False Bay Nature Reserve, managed by the City of Cape Town, is one of several sites the BIRDIE project would like to partner with going forward. In addition to being an important conservation area containing endemic vegetation types and species, the Reserve is home to more than 200 bird species, representing over 60% of the bird species in the South-western Cape. It was proclaimed a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance in 2015.

Inaugural Biodiversity Informatics Master’s Program cohort, University of Abomey-Calavi.

THRESCOAL engages local traditional leaders for protection of crocodiles.

Outreach program at Tanoso Local Authority Basic School.

THRESCOAL organizes capacity building workshop for students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

THRESCOAL building the capacity of young conservationists in crocodile survey.