At the end of June, Fred and Karen Peters of the Manderston area organized two 10 000l water tanks to be delivered to the Sanctuary. Staff and volunteers (seen here left to right, Lu Belinda,Josh, Kees,…
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Probably the strangest of our raptors is the secretary bird, which (with its long legs) seems more like a stork or a crane than a bird of prey! Volunteers Josh Klein and Kees Groot (in…
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The African Bird of Prey Sanctuary receives a funding grant from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF) After four years of deliberation all at the Sanctuary were ecstatically surprised to hear that the NLDTF…
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Grade 3 learner, Lea Conti, visited the Sanctuary with her Saint Marys classmates in the first week of March- just in time to meet Ruan Schönefeld of the Wild Exposure Rock team and see exactly…
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ABOPS Belinda Phetha and Belgium volunteer, Kim Klaes, ‘Like’ the new Sanctuary road sign erected in February 2013! The Durban-based branding company (with a difference!) Big Eye Branding was founded by twin brothers Roger and…
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Having fun, Roger Fitzsimons of Big Eye Branding does the ‘bird-thing’ with children from the Mpophomeni community near Howick. On January 25th 2013 Durban-based, Big Eye Branding, facilitated 60 children & their mentors, from…
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Colony custodian, Mike Neetling, releases a young cape vulture after it has been successfully weighed,measured and marked. As part of an ongoing national effort to monitor the cape vulture colonies in South Africa Ben…
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Hosts Barbara and Tony Windt flank Ben Hoffman (holding Troy) and the winners of the Raptor Rescue Sheild Trevor Edley (rear), Paul Blackman (holding the sheild) and Andrew Ryan (second from right). The fourth member…
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Children raise money for bearded vulture’s new home. Eight-year-old Lea Conti had heard about the plight of the Bearded Vultures and that there was an un-releaseable bird living at the Sanctuary. She asked her mother…
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