SABAP2 (http://sabap2.adu.org.za) is the most important bird conservation research project in southern Africa. If you don't know the distributions of birds, and how they are changing, you cannot effectively do conservation intelligently. This slideshow demonstrates how the citizen scientists who contribute their observations to SABAP2 have made the most amazing progress since the project started in July 2007. The slideshow shows year by year progress since July 2007 to July 2012, and then shows progress in the five months to 22 December 2012

1. SABAP2
Southern African Bird Atlas Project 2
Visual progress:
annually July 2007 to July 2012, and
22 December 2012
Les Underhill, Doug Harebottle and
Michael Brooks
Animal Demography Unit
Department of Zoology
University of Cape Town
http://sabap2.adu.org.za

2. SABAP2 is a partnership
between the Animal
Demography Unit at the
University of Cape Town,
BirdLife South Africa and the
South African National
Biodiversity Institute (SANBI)

10. • In the past month SABAP2 has reached some
important milestones:
– 65% coverage on 9 December
– 80000 checklists in the database on 21 December
– 30% coverage in the Northern Cape on 8 December
• It is important that this project continue
• If you or your company can help to sponsor SABAP2,
please contact Les Underhill les.underhill@uct.ac.za
• Or you can do an EFT:
– UCT donations account, Standard Bank, Rondebosch
– Branch 025009, Account 071522387 (SWIFT code is SBZAZAJJ)
– Beneficiary reference: Fund 231454 (this is the ADU’s donations
“fund” and tells the University where to transfer the money to)
– Please send an email to Sue Kuyper sue.kuyper@uct.ac.za and tell
her that you want the donation to be allocated to SABAP2
– This email also enables UCT to send a Section 18A tax donation
certificate

11. UCT does not charge any "levy" on
• In the past month SABAP2 has reached some
donations; the entire amount comes to
important milestones: the ADU. There is a levy on formal
contracts, but the multiple services we
– 65% coverage on 9 December get for the amount we pay are pretty
good – the ADU projects could not be
– 80000 checklists in the database on 21 December
run cheaper off campus – one of the
– 30% coverage in the Northern most important benefits is the fantastic
Cape on 8 December
• It is important that this project continue
high quality access we get onto the
global internet highways!
• If you or your company can help to sponsor SABAP2,
please contact Les Underhill les.underhill@uct.ac.za
• Or you can do an EFT:
– UCT donations account, Standard Bank, Rondebosch
– Branch 025009, Account 071522387 (SWIFT code is SBZAZAJJ)
– Beneficiary reference: Fund 231454 (this is the ADU’s donations
“fund” and tells the University where to transfer the money to)
– Please send an email to Sue Kuyper sue.kuyper@uct.ac.za and tell
her that you want the donation to be allocated to SABAP2
– This email also enables UCT to send a Section 18A tax donation
certificate