BIAZA CPD Webinar - Big lessons from research and conservation action of our Thunderbirds, the Southern Ground Hornbills

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Taking place online at 1pm via Teams, this webinar is being run by Dr Lucy Kemp, Project Director of Mabula Ground Hornbill Project. Please register here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/01996bb3-6d60-426c-9c16-b4728e90f22b@ae867948-4402-4f78-954d-c205a2629eed?source=copyLinkLegacyShareEventDialog

Over twenty-five years of research and conservation action for Southern Ground-hornbills have taught the team some amazing things, both positive and negative, about these birds and the environments they live in. One positive is how easy it is to garner all South Africans to be a part of conserving their natural heritage and playing a critical role in their local areas. Another is that just because a conservation action is expensive, time-consuming and sometimes heart breaking doesn’t mean that commitment doesn’t bring hope. This is the case of reintroducing this socially complex, long-lived birds into areas where they have become locally extinct. One of the challenges we have met is how much spent-lead ammunition risks that future of these bird but even that becomes an opportunity as now that we understand that we can mitigate for it, and every little patch of habitat clear of that threat is good for the survival of multiple other scavenging species. This is a story of collaboration and hope.