Think of what you could achieve if you had a team of hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people gathering data to support research. You could move mountains… or you could help the Z.P.G.A. research partners make huge strides in protecting the air, water and land we are obligated to protect.
The information you collect will be used to collective strengthen arguments, make new discoveries, and assist in developing technologies and applications – all to understand and solve environmental problems.
© Charles Brightman
Join us in tagging and documenting our Zimbabwe Baobab trees. Africa’s iconic baobab trees are reportedly dying, and scientists don’t know why. In a study intended to examine why the trees are so long-living, researchers made the unexpected finding that many of the oldest and largest of the trees have died in the past decade or so.
The Southern Ground Hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri, a vulnerable bird species of the eastern part of Southern Africa, has declined significantly outside protected areas in Zimbabwe. Major factors contributing to this include competition for space with increasing human population (Mashonaland Plateau in particular), loss of large hollow tree trunks used for nesting, eating of poisoned baits, snaring, and shooting by householders when the birds smash window panes that reflect their images.
The Southern Ground Hornbill is now of national concern in Zimbabwe. Although not one of the 44 ‘Specially Protected’ species under the Parks and Wildlife Act, it is one of the 34 non-protected species considered to be ‘Vulnerable’ in some way and that deserve to be monitored. It is one of ten bird species under BirdLife Zimbabwe’s ‘National Special Species Survey Project’, mainly because of its rapidly shrinking distribution range. It also has a positive place, through fear, in Zimbabwe’s African traditions.
© Owen Gröbler
The Raptor Survey encourages raptor enthusiasts to collect information on all raptors. Please down load the form or protocol which is a set of guidelines enabling observations to be recorded in a standardized format which is scalable to the skill of the observer, length of survey route and detail orientation and capability of the surveying party.
The survey’s goal is to collect, by means of uniform methods, raptor information that can be useful to researchers, land management and planning agencies, and regional birding organizations. The goal of the program is also to have an enjoyable citizen science experience.
The Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe has received a small grant from GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) to assist with recording the Arachnid Collection at the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe as well as the arachnid diversity of our protected areas including National Parks, Safari and Wilderness Areas. To try achieve as complete a record as possible everyone can get involved.
In the beginning of 2020 the Zimbabwean Professional Guides Association (Z.P.G.A.) initiated a project whereby we encouraged schools around the Country to have their first year students plant trees
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