Click here to view South Africa's National Report to the Convention, compiled in preparation for COP7. It took the Project four years and many discussions with farmers and agricultural and conservation extension officers in KwaZulu-Natal, Free State and Mpumalanga to gather the information which makes up the field guides. Biota of South African wetlands in relation to the Ramsar Convention is now available, free of charge. Click here to view the introduction to the publication. Click here for a full list of the Programme's publications and how to order.
Frogs are an ecologically sensitive, essential link in the food chain of many species.
Very little information on their distribution is available and to overcome this problem the Southern African Frog Atlassing Project has been established to map frog distribution using the methods perfected for the Bird Atlas Project by the Avian Demography Unit at the University of Cape Town. It is a national project coordinated at provincial level. Like the Bird Atlas, the project relies heavily on public participation. It is primarily aimed at making available, at reasonable cost, modern resource materials for use in school computer and resource centres. Due to the number of frog species and the ecological differences between areas, it was decided to issue information for the various provinces in groupings.