SABAP2 (http://sabap2.adu.org.za) is the most important bird conservation research project in southern Africa. If you don't know the distributions of birds, and how they are changing, you cannot effectively do conservation intelligently. SABAP2 is monitoring the distributions of bird species across southern Africa. This slideshow demonstrates what the citizen scientists who contribute their observations to SABAP2 have achieved through the years since the project started in July 2007. It shows the coverage map each year in July, and the final slide shows the impressive additional coverage in the nine months since July 2012 to March 2013.

1. SABAP2
Southern African Bird Atlas Project 2
Visual progress:
annually July 2007 to July 2012, and
22 March 2013
Les Underhill, Doug Harebottle and
Michael Brooks
Animal Demography Unit
Department of Zoology
University of Cape Town
http://sabap2.adu.org.za

2. SABAP2 is a partnership
between the Animal
Demography Unit at the
University of Cape Town,
BirdLife South Africa and the
South African National
Biodiversity Institute (SANBI)

10. • SABAP2 milestones in the past two months :
– Two-thirds coverage achieved
– Every pentad in Gauteng has at least seven checklists, and is
DARK GREEN on the coverage map
– “Depth” of coverage increased steadily, with 39% of the region
having at least two checklists, and 23% having at least four
– is important that this project continue
• If you or your company can help to sponsor SABAP2, please contact
Les Underhill les.underhill@uct.ac.za
• Or you can do an EFT:
– UCT donations account, Standard Bank, Rondebosch
– Branch 025009, Account 071522387 (SWIFT code is SBZAZAJJ)
– Beneficiary reference: Fund 231454 (this is the ADU’s donations
“fund” and tells the University where to transfer the money to)
– Please send an email to Sue Kuyper sue.kuyper@uct.ac.za and tell
her that you want the donation to be allocated to SABAP2
– UCT will send a Section 18A tax donation certificate

11. • SABAP2 milestones does the past monthdonations;
UCT in not charge any "levy" on :
the entire amount comes to the ADU. There is a
– 14% of all pentads reached DARK GREEN on butJanuary
levy on formal contracts, 13 the multiple
– 100 pentads with more than 100 get for the amount we pay are
services we checklists on 31 December
– 12 million records in the combined the ADU projects could not be run
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cheaper off campus – one of the most important
– In terms of pentads visited, Northern Cape (1547) overtook we
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as onto the global second place
• It is important that this project continue
• If you or your company can help to sponsor SABAP2, please contact
Les Underhill les.underhill@uct.ac.za
• Or you can do an EFT:
– UCT donations account, Standard Bank, Rondebosch
– Branch 025009, Account 071522387 (SWIFT code is SBZAZAJJ)
– Beneficiary reference: Fund 231454 (this is the ADU’s donations
“fund” and tells the University where to transfer the money to)
– Please send an email to Sue Kuyper sue.kuyper@uct.ac.za and tell
her that you want the donation to be allocated to SABAP2
– UCT will send a Section 18A tax donation certificate