As part of our ongoing conservation initiative, we will be donating all these various Southern African bird field guides to the Karkloof Conservancy and some community schools in the surrounding area. This conservancy consists of local landowners whose aim is to preserve the exceptional biodiversity in the...

Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, experts have determined that the current rate of bird extinction is somewhere between 1,000 and 10,000 times the background rate. More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been driven to...

Rockjumper is proud to announce our sponsorship of the Southern Bald Ibis monitoring programme, which monitors the annual breeding success rates of the Ibises’ breeding colonies in South Africa. Our donation assists in at least covering the fuel costs for the project monitors, all of whom are volunteers and...

Rockjumper is proud to announce that we have recently become Blue Swallow Guardians through our support of The Endangered Wildlife Trust’s (EWT) Threatened Grassland Species Programme. This vital project aims to reverse the rapid decline (and likely extinction within a mere 10 years) of South Africa’s...

Middelpunt Wetland Trust was founded in 1993 with the specific objective of conserving the White-winged Flufftail and its habitat. At that time there were only three sites in South Africa where the bird had been recorded and ‘Middelpunt’ – a wetland between Belfast and Dullstroom – was one of them. The...