Roger Mayes (VM 58) If you live in Gauteng and walk round your garden from time to time, you may sometimes notice a small spider web with what looks at first glance like a grey twig stuck vertically through its middle. Closer inspection will reveal that the “twig” is...
Francois Swart (VM78) – 29/04/2017 Every day in nature is special, at the same time a gift and an opportunity to broaden our horizons and increase our knowledge. Now, as I get older the retention of knowledge seems to be challenging, especially with the amounts of stuff that we...
For those who do not know Lethabong Library is situated in Maboloka. You may ask yourself, why this library, why in Maboloka? Well, the story starts many years ago when Bushveld Mosaic first began with its sponsorship programme. In 1997 we sponsored one teacher, and in 1998 two, one...
Roger Mayes 24/03/2017 Having somehow managed to get myself tagged with the label of the HO’s insect man, from time to time I get requests for assistance with identifying some of the varied and beautiful creatures which inhabit the undergrowth. So it came about that Machiel Ellis passed on...
It seems that the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens is a popular place, especially for pensioners on a Tuesday, and being part of that group, my wife and I were walking towards the falls a few weeks ago when we saw a very striking insect strolling across the path, with...
Just before Christmas I went on one of my Tuesday-is-pensioner-day visits to the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens in Roodepoort. Strolling up towards the top of the waterfall with my eyes pointing earthwards as usual, I noticed something very small moving erratically across the path. Closer inspection revealed that...
A sequence of photos shot by Ian Gordon-Cumming (VM94 ) on a recent trip to the Kalagadi Transfrontier Park. Should be compulsory viewing by all those (insert your own choice of word here!) who insist on getting out of their cars in Pilanesberg. Looking carefully? If you haven’t seen...
Summer CWAC 2017 By Lesley Cornish It was the 2017 summer CWAC and instead of just going up on the day, Errol and I joined the happy campers at Fish Eagle for the weekend because of Braam Luus’s security system. Another draw was that the Gull-billed Tern had been...
We have had a graduate student extensively monitoring the elephant on a daily basis since the beginning of the year, with the express objective to ascertain how the elephant react to the various situations they are placed under by guests and guides while viewing the elephant on their game...
NWPB HONORARY OFFICERS – ACTIVITIES TIMETABLE 2017 MONTH DATE VENUE EVENT TRAINER/ORGANISER January Sunday 15th Borakalalo CWAC Ian Wagstaff February Saturday 4th Centurion – Pretoria First Aid Refresher Etienne Step February Wednesday 8th Johannesburg Theory/ Sex & Age Rhino Monitoring Rusty Hustler February 11 – 12th Mafekeng/Botsalano Monitoring...
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