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NUMBER 56 JANUARY 2011 CONTENTS Editorial 1 Chairman's Report May 2012 2 Articles an Account of a Pair of Lilac-Breasted Rolle Babbler No. 57 September 2012 NUMBER 56 JANUARY 2011 CONTENTS Editorial 1 Chairman’s Report May 2012 2 Articles An account of a pair of Lilac-breasted Rollers breeding in a Francistown garden – August 2011-December 2011 10 Mike Soroczinski Heronry at Kasane Rapids 14 Chris Brown Distribution and status of the Black-necked Grebe in Zimbabwe 16 David Ewbank Waterbird Counts in Botswana from July 2010 to January 2012 24 Stephanie Tyler Reports from the Records Subcommittee J o u r n a l o f B i r d L i f e B o t s w a n a 1 September 2012 Babbler No. 57 b a A summary of Category B records 40 Compiled by Chris Brewster and Stephanie Tyler Interesting and Unusual Sightings 53 Compiled by Stephanie J. Tyler & Chris A. Brewster Contributors of records 61 Some breeding records in 2011 and 2012 Compiled by Stephanie Tyler and Chris A. Brewster 62 Birds killed in their thousands by powerlines 65 2 J o u r n a l o f B i r d L i f e B o t s w a n a Babbler No. 57 September 2012 Editorial I write this editorial from a rain-soaked Britain which is ironic as I read of the drought in Botswana and the very low levels at various dams. Chris Brewster has told me that Bokaa Dam is only 5% full and many other dams are similarly drying up. Waterbirds will of course move to wherever there is water in southern/central Africa. Numbers of flocks of Lesser Flamingos and a few Greater Flamingos moving through the Okavango has been of particular note in August. I have been saddened to learn of several cases of persecution of protected species of birds, both deliberate and incidental, in Botswana in the last year. The poisoning of vultures has been highlighted already in the Birds and People Newsletter and BirdLife Botswana is working hard to combat this. A particularly horrifying event was the shooting of some Great White Pelicans at a new breeding colony at Lake Xau as documented by Pete Hancock and Ken Oake in the Birds and People Newsletter no. 34. This resulted in the colony with hundreds of eggs and chicks being abandoned and left to die. I was also concerned to learn of the stoning and killing of chicks of storks, egrets and other waterbirds at the Kasane (Seboba) Rapids colony on the Chobe River. Phil Zappala noted that the chicks that could be collected by local people were taken home to eat or braaied down at the rapids. This seems to be a new occurrence as for years the colony has been left undisturbed. Chris Brown had been impressed by the sheer numbers of African Openbills nesting there in September 2011 – see page 14 – but Phil reports far fewer Openbills and Yellow-billed Storks in August 2012 possibly because of the disturbance last year. Hopefully DWNP staff and others can prevent the same thing happening this year. On a more cheerful note this issue of Babbler contains a fascinating account of Lilac-breasted Rollers breeding in Francistown by Mike Soroczinski and unusually, a paper on birds – Black-necked Grebes – in Zimbabwe by David Ewbank; there is also a two year report on the waterbird counts in Botswana as well as the usual Category B records and other interesting sightings from a very welcome increased number of observers. Stephanie J. Tyler, Editor J o u r n a l o f B i r d L i f e B o t s w a n a 3 September 2012 Babbler No. 57 b a BirdLife Botswana Chairman’s report, Annual General Meeting, 12 May 2012 This has been another year of achievement for our Society, where we have made excellent progress in some areas but marked time in others. How does one measure success? I suggest that BirdLife Botswana’s success would be measured by the progress of projects under its control, development of its staff, growth in membership and participation by membership in the activities organised by the Society. Underpinning all of this would be the financial health of BirdLife Botswana. Where do we start looking at what has been done and what needs attention? The failure of Environmental Education (EE) in Botswana The subject of EE is fraught with difficulty in Botswana. Currently there is a world-wide debate raging on the place of EE in school curricula and its effectiveness. The debate centres on what the educational system can do to improve students’ understanding of the environment and its importance in their lives. The environment is often seen as a political issue and pushed to the margins of school curricula by administrators and parents note Saylan and Blumstein, in their book The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It). But at its core, the authors contend, environmental responsibility is a broadly held, nonpartisan value, much like respect for the law. As such, they believe, it deserves a central place in public education, with lessons on the environment permeating every student’s day. Environmentally active citizens, they say, should grasp everything from an understanding of tipping points to the “capacity to see intangible value in things: forests simply for the sake of the forest; the expanse of wilderness simply because it is alive, primal, and fiercely beautiful.” In a recent interview, one of the authors, Charles Saylan laid out his vision of what must be done to fundamentally overhaul environmental education. If environmental education is to be truly effective in creating responsible citizens who will help stop human degradation of the environment, Saylan insists, it must go well beyond platitudes and the occasional class trip. This book applies directly to the situation in Botswana where teachers are reluctant to become involved in EE (in fact most simply don’t care about it and lack the 4 J o u r n a l o f B i r d L i f e B o t s w a n a Babbler No. 57 September 2012 passion for it) and most staff at the Ministry of Education and Skills Development seem to consider that EE or the environment is not of much importance for their consideration beyond talk, instead of support and action. EE issues of fundamental importance in Botswana are overgrazing by cattle, deforestation, wanton use of poisons and pesticides, unplanned veld and forest fires, littering to name but a few. Our major projects deal with the environment and the communities who live there. The quality of EE impacts and permeates everything we do and are trying to achieve. It is difficult to change the practices of adults, but we believe that children must learn how to be aware AND get involved in conserving and improving our environment. Ms Yukiko Maki-MURAKAMI, our volunteer from Japan, and Doreen McColaugh spend every waking hour in trying to improve EE in Botswana and interacting with educators in many different ways. We have arranged outings with interested schools and organised a World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) celebration for 600 children from 20 schools and institutions last month. We worked closely with the US Embassy to organise this most successful WMBD and we value their co-operation. Ms Lesego Ratsie played a key role in this project. BLB’s Major Projects Strategic Partnerships to Improve the Financial and Operational Sustainability of Protected Areas Outstanding progress has been made in this project since Motshereganyi Virat Kootsositse took control early last year. The project is taking place over four years until December 2012, during which funding will be provided. It is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through the United Nations Development Programme, and implemented by BirdLife Botswana in partnership with the Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP), and the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA). This project seeks to strengthen management partnerships between public, private, NGO and community stakeholders for the improvement of financial and operational sustainability of protected areas in a measurable manner, using the Flamingo Sanctuary in southern Sua Pan (which is in the Makgadikgadi wetland system) as a pilot site. In Botswana, the responsibility for managing protected areas currently solely lies with the Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP), and has proved to be a very expensive and mammoth task. This project investigates an alternative way of managing protected areas which will improve the effectiveness and cost J o u r n a l o f B i r d L i f e B o t s w a n a 5 September 2012 Babbler No. 57 b a efficiency of management, ensuring that scarce PA funds are optimally employed, thus maximizing impact-per-unit investment. Local communities residing around protected areas will be capacitated to co-manage these areas, together with government, the private sector and NGOs, to reduce the current expenses, and also the resentment which exists towards conserving these areas. Nature-based tourism initiatives will be developed so that local communities realise direct economic benefits from conserving these eco-systems. Notable progress that has been made this year is the drafting of a document to contribute to an improved understanding of the financial and management operations of the Parks Authority within DWNP. Of the 12 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in Botswana, seven of them overlap protected areas and so their management operations are key to safeguarding Botswana’s IBAs. A management plan of southern Sua Pan has also been developed. This covers the flamingo Sanctuary and areas (the buffer zone around the flamingo Sanctuary) within the vicinity of the four villages (Mmatshumu, Mokubilo, Mosu and Mmeya) in the southern part of the Makgadikgadi Pans.
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