ALANNA BROWNELL: “Exploring the Social World of Swebeswebe’s Baboons: Insights from Ongoing Research”
RICHARD WADLEY: “Sweet and Sour on the Rocks”
WIHAN PRETORIUS: “Why and How we Monitor Predators in Conservation on Lapalala Wilderness Nature Reserve”
PROF. LYN WADLEY: “Calling the rain with Waterberg rock art”
DR KELSEY SKINNER: “An introduction to pangolins”
PROF NIGEL BARKER AND OLIVIA BARKER: “an update on research conducted on Bankrotbos in the Waterberg”
PHILADELPHIA NKUNA: “University of Limpopo – climate change impact on tomato farming”
WLLEM CRAUSE: “Greenlife feeds-fires:How does it impact you?”
SASCHA VAN DER MERWE & JESSE DOWNTON: “Waterberg academy- connection to impacts”
ZOTHILE ZUMA, KELLY PATTERSON & IRINA WAGNER: “Reproductive Strategies in Chacma Baboons: Mating Behaviour and swelling ongoing study”
KOOS MONYEKI: “Creating Gardens of Hope – Garden Champions Project”
BLAKE AND MEGAN JOHNSON: “Eyes on the Waterberg – Promoting the Waterberg through creative marketing and visual media”
KRISTIE GILL: “Adaptive Strategies of Free-Ranging Mammals in the Waterberg”
HANNAH BOERNER: “Monitoring the Elephant Population of Lapalala Wilderness”
DR SIGQIBO MFUYWA: “Land Redistribution and Tenure Reform”
WARWICK & MICHELE TARBOTON: “Trees and Shrubs of the Waterberg”
DR THARINA BIRD: “Spiders of Southern Africa”
DR MATTHEW CHILD: “The potential of the wildlife economy to rejuvenate South Africa and the world”
CHLOE CLAISTER: “Risk preferences in African elephants”
KRISTIE GILL: “Habitat connectivity importance in the Waterberg”
HANNES GROBLER: “Bee ware beekeeping”
GUS & MARGIE MILLS: “Spotted and brown hyena research”
DR ANN WILSON: “Unisa’s involvement with Magagamatala community”
JESICCA BABICH: “Rhisotope Project update”
KRISTIE GILL: “Habitat connectivity importance in the Waterberg”
MARILIZE GREYLING and MARGERIE AUCAMP: “Waterberg Research Support Centre update”
EMILE HONIBALL: “The Endangered Wildlife Trust’s Biodiversity” Stewardship Project
BRONWYN MAREE: “Lapalala Wilderness Nature Reserve Dark Sky Park application:
DR TSIRELEDZO GOODWILL MAKWARELA: “Ticks on Lapalala Wilderness Nature Reserve and the One Health approach”
JEAN VENTER: “Research update from Marataba Game Reserve”
LUFUNO: “Update on the Waterberg Biosphere Reserve Youth Network projects supported by the Waterberg Nature Conservancy”
KELLY ABRAMS: “Waterbird landscape alliance”
NIGEL BARKER: “Update on progress of Biodiversity Project”
PIETER BESTER: “Herbariums”
DAVE JACOBS: “Mushrooms”
ARMSTRONG MALULEKE: “Journey to conservation and roles at Welgevonden Game Reserve”
BRONWYN MAREE: “Seabird bycatch in fisheries”
PETER MASHABA: “Riparian areas and wetlands”
DR GERHARD NORTJE: “Conserving our soil”
MARINE SERVONNAT: “Ingwe Leopard Research”
GARETH THOMAS: “Re-wilding a pangolin”
LYN WADLEY: “Archeological research in the Waterberg”
RICHARD WADLEY: “Caine the Able – a nod to a new Belgium manager”
JESS BABICH: “Rhinos saving people (Kenya)”
DR THARINA BIRD & DR VRECH BIRD: “Solifuges”
MATTHEW CHILD: “SANBI – Sustainable Wildlife Economies Project”
ZOE GLYPHIS: “Motswari Vet Services”
LINDA HEEVER VAN DEN: “Vultures”
JOCELYN KAGAN: “Photographer – passion for wild dogs”
MOJI KITSI: “Welgevonden Game Reserve education project update”
MASHUDU MAKHOKA: “Past, present, future – Waterberg Biosphere Reserve”
LIZANNE NEL: “Lead ammunition – risks”
GORDON O’BRIAN: “Rivers of life project”
PIETER & A PURDON OLIVIER: “MAPSS (mapping reserves)”
JONATHAN SWART: “Pangolins”
CLIVE WALKER: “How he started Endangered Wildlife Trust”
CARMEN WARMENHOVE: “White rhino calf swopping”
PROFESSOR NIGEL BARKER: “Biodiversity Project”
LUCY KEMP: “Ground hornbills”
PROFESSOR JAMES LARKIN: “Rhinos isotope in horns project”
MASHUDU MAKHOKA: “Waterberg Biosphere Reserve update”
REILLY MOONEY: “Wild dogs”
RICHARD WADLEY: “Bilharzia”
DR PHILIP CALCOTT: “Solar power recent innovations and their application to us in the Waterberg”
DEREK VAN DER MERWE: “Waterberg Wild Dog Initiative – Its meaning and where we’re at”
MICHELLE THOMPSON: “Hot birds research project”
LESIBA MASIBA: “Waterberg Biosphere Reserve extending its boundaries to include key biodiversity areas like Nylsvlei”
JESSICA BABICH: “A broad overview and highlights of the tusk Symposium 2019”
The April, June and August general meetings were cancelled due to Covid 19 restrictions. However the following visual presentations were made and circulated:
MARILIZE GREYLING: “Impala In The Waterberg”
REILLY MOONEY: “Virtual Swebeswebe baboons research”
JUDI GROENEWALD: “Waterberg Tourism update”
HEINRICH HATTINGH: “Dust & erosion control”
CARMEN WARMENHOVE: “The orphaned cheetah cubs – their on-going tale”
ADRIAAN LOUW: “Soil bio-microbes – the benefits”
CLIVE WALKER: “Once upon a baobab……..why are Africa’s baobabs dying”
WARWICK TARBOTON: “Oxpeckers – the come back kids”
LESIBA MASIBE: “Waterberg Biosphere Reserve – where we are now and where we are going”
SEAN HENSMEN: “How he has developed a tourism product that promotes educational as well as conservation values in a holistic manner”
PROFESSOR NIGEL BARKER: “How with Waterbergers’ help and co-operation this important programme can be grown”
RICHARD WADLEY: “History of churches in the Waterberg”
MOJI KITSI: “Environmental Education In the Waterberg”
MARK GODFREY: “How to survive a snake bite and anti-venom banks”
SHAUN MCCARTNEY: “The craft Of craft brewing”
GREG CANNING: “Spiders of the Waterberg”
LUZANNE KATZ: “Co-existing with Baboons”
CARMEN WARMENHOVE: “Orphaned cheetah cubs”’