Tag Archives: Flamingos

Kimberley 11/01/2018: An expert overview of the current situation with the Flamingos and Kamfers Dam by Mark D. Anderson, Chief Executive Officer, BirdLife South Africa Many people will know that Lesser Flamingos bred, during four consecutive years (about a decade ...

By Brian Culver • Kamfers Dam Kimberley, 9 Jan 2018  Some of the scenes at Kamfersdam yesterday 9 January 2018. Thousands of locally hatched chicks are in danger of perishing due to the local authorities and mines ignoring the pleas ...

Birdlife South Afrika has launched a petition calling on the Sol Plaatje Municipality and the Northern Cape provincial government to urgently address the issues which are threatening the now dried-up Kamfers dam and its world-famous flamingos. NOTE: The petition URL ...

Spokesman for Sol Plaatje Municipality, Sello Matsie, added that no permission or authorisation was granted to use the treated effluent from the Homevale Waste Water Treatment Works (WWTW). “An agreement with servitude farmers is pending. It is our understanding that ...

Kimberley’s Kamfers Dam, once a home to the largest permanent population of lesser flamingos in Southern Africa, has virtually dried up with not a single flamingo in sight. Sol Plaatje Municipality spokesman, Sello Matsie, yesterday admitted that several factors, including ...

BULTFONTEIN Road will be rehabilitated and re-opened for all light traffic. This decision was taken by the Sol Plaatje City Council at a meeting yesterday, where it was also agreed that all adjacent roads and intersections to Bultfontein road must ...

The DFA reports that raw sewage is flowing in the direction of Platfontein due to the Gogga pumping being out of order. The Homevale Waste Water Treatment Works (HWWT) is receiving almost no slid waste from either Galeshewe or Roodepan ...

BIRD experts have warned that the occurrence of thousands of flamingos at Kamfers Dam in Kimberley, which supports the largest permanent population of Lesser Flamingos in Southern Africa, could soon be a thing of the past if the Sol Plaatje ...