Flamingo chicks hatch.(News)

Sunday Tribune (South Africa);  November 30, 2008 ;     452 words ......township on the shores of Kamfers Dam in Kimberley, the...consecutive year that the Kamfers Dam flamingos, the only...red data books. The Kamfers Dam's breeding island was constructed by...100 000 individuals, Kamfers Dam contributed ...

Flamingo chicks hatch; The second batch of hatchlings has arrived on...

The Sunday Independent (South Africa);  November 30, 2008 ;     700+ words ......shores of the Kamfers Dam in Kimberley...year that the Kamfers Dam flamingos, the...Pan in Botswana. Kamfers Dam is the fourth...breeding site. The Kamfers Dam breeding island was constructed...only artificial breeding island for ...

Fears for the future of flamingoes.(News)

The Saturday Star (South Africa);  June 21, 2008 ;     571 words ......acclaimed artificial breeding island. And the thousands...flamingoes at Kimberley's Kamfers Dam, a permanent wetland...water-quality issues at Kamfers Dam head-on in the coming...could enter the pan. Kamfers Dam is one of only six...

Conservationist receives award for protecting flamingoes.(News)

The Saturday Star (South Africa);  September 13, 2008 ;     198 words ......Waterbird Conservation Award for his work at Kamfers Dam in Kimberley, which supports the largest...R2-billion residential development near Kamfers Dam, and the poor water quality from the...of the juvenile lesser flamingoes at Kamfers Dam have avian pox virus, an indirect effect...

Flamingos under threat.(News)

The Saturday Star (South Africa);  June 28, 2008 ;     203 words ......flamingo sites - a permanent wetland called Kamfers Dam in Kimberley, plagued by raw sewage...quality raw sewage to gush into the dam. Kamfers Dam is the only lesser flamingo breeding...occupants face a growing danger. Some of Kamfers Dam's young lesser flamingos have swollen...

Another whistleblower had wings clipped.(News)

The Saturday Star (South Africa);  November 29, 2008 ;     222 words ......sewerage works threatening the famed lesser flamingoes at Kamfers Dam in Kimberley and at Northgate, a major housing development...of law, said department spokesperson Les Abrahams. The Kamfers Dam is the only artificial breeding island for lesser flamingoes in the world. The birds ...

Temporary reprieve for bird expert.(News)

Pretoria News (South Africa);  September 27, 2008 ;     133 words ......development opposite South Africa's only breeding site for Lesser flamingos at Kamfers Dam in Kimberley and their concerns about raw sewage pouring into Kamfers Dam from malfunctioning local sewage works through the Save the Flamingo Association...

Ornithologist's suspension clears way for development; Attempt to protect...

The Saturday Star (South Africa);  September 6, 2008 ;     606 words ......to safeguard South Africa's only breeding site for lesser flamingoes. Last...called Northgate, opposite the Kamfers Dam in Kimberley - an acclaimed nesting...address raw sewage pouring into the Kamfers Dam, threatening its flamingoes as...visionary behind an artificial breeding ...

Sewage threatens to turn flamingo breeding site into cesspool

The Independent - London;  July 11, 2008 ;     200 words ......thousands of lesser flamingos gather at a South African wetland - but it is a spectacle now gravely threatened by pollution. Kamfers Dam, near Kimberley, is the only nesting site in the country - and one of only six breeding areas in the world. It has hosted...

Human saga of good and evil in Kimberley.(News)

The Sunday Independent (South Africa);  August 24, 2008 ;     136 words ......Africa, and now again in Kimberley. On one side of the line is a small group of people that has helped nature by creating a breeding island for the near-threatened lesser flamingo, putting South Africa on the map as one of only six such breeding sites in the world...

Suspended bird boffin fights back.(News)

The Saturday Star (South Africa);  September 27, 2008 ;     277 words ......objection to a proposed R2-billion residential development opposite South Africa's only breeding site for lesser flamingos at the Kamfers Dam in Kimberley, as well as their concerns about raw sewage pouring into the dam from malfunctioning local sewerage works through...

WORLD REPORT.

New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand);  July 12, 2008 ;     491 words ......thousands of lesser flamingos gather at a South African wetland, but it is a spectacle now gravely threatened by pollution. Kamfers Dam, near Kimberley, is the only nesting site in the country and one of only six breeding areas in the world. This year 9000 chicks...

DVD REVIEWS.(192)

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  February 15, 2002 ;     456 words ......takes bored billionaire Paul Kirby (William H. Macy) and his wife Amanda (Leoni) on an aerial tour of InGen's old dino breeding island. Of course, it all goes wrong, and when they are stranded on the island with no means of returning home, Dr Grant discovers...

Run with dinosaurs.(News)

South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  September 1, 2001 ;     227 words ......is acting as a guide for a family desperately searching for their missing son but whose plane crashes on the velociraptor breeding island of Isla Sorna and plunges them into a desperate struggle with the intelligent but ferocious beasts. The film is better value...

Charity bans infected seals.(News)

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  November 18, 2002 ;     150 words ......devastating disease, Phocine Distemper Virus, was discovered in May this year when the death rate among seals on the Danish breeding island Anholt soared. Researchers at The Scottish Agricultural College in Inverness believe Scotland has avoided a major outbreak...