2024 Vulture Breeding Survey Sponsorship

Puma Energey and Skycore Aviation are once again sponsoring the annual vulture breeding survey in the Namib.

Ibis Publication

Our data from camera traps has resulted in an article having been published in Ibis, international journal of avian science.
We are grateful to all who have, in some way, contributed to this publication.
The article can be accessed via the link below
Semi-automated detection of tagged animals from camera trap images using artificial intelligence by A. Santangelia et al. 2022

Below is the link to a blog post summarising the results of the same article:
Spotting tagged birds from photographs

Gyps-vulture movements

A paper on Gyps-vulture movement data from Africa, which includes Namibian inputs, was published in March 2022 in the journal Biological Conservation. The accompanying graphic is a great way of presenting the results to those of us who don't regularly read scientific publications.
Understanding continent-wide variation in vulture ranging behavior to assess feasibility of Vulture Safe Zones in Africa: Challenges and possibilities by A. Kane et al. 2022

Rössing Uranium donates to Vultures Namibia

On 24 September 2021 Rössing Uranium donated N$50 000 to Vultures Namibia at a ceremony at the corporate offices in Swakopmund.
Peter Bridgeford as a representative of Vultures Namibia, accepted the donation.
THANK YOU Rössing Uranium for this generous contribution to our vulture fund.

Daylight Ekandjo, Jacklyn Mwenze, Peter Bridgeford

Rössing Uranium has been sponsoring the Rössing Birding Day at the Walvis Bay lagoon for several years. Last year, because of Covid 19, they could not invite the schools from Swakopmund and Walvis Bay to a Birding Day at the lagoon. So in 2020, they made a video, all about the birds and the importance of the lagoon and schools could use it to show to the learners.

This year, Covid had again prevented the schools coming together. So Rössing decided to make another video about birding, but this time about vultures. The video was made in the Namib-Naukluft Park, the stronghold of Lappet-faced Vultures in the Namib Desert. The video reaches many more learners as it is free for all schools throughout the country. It is also shown to the employees.