WNC Speakers
2024 Speakers

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”

2023 Speakers

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”

2022 Speakers

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”

2021 Speakers

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”

2020 Speakers

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”

2019 Speakers

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”’