FACILITATING WILDLIFE RESEARCH IN AFRICA'S WILD PLACES since 2003
Okavango Nest Box Project Team - 2009
Lesser Bushbaby roosting in nest box
in the Okavango Delta - 2009
First ever photograph of Cape
Parrot feeding in the high canopy
on yellowwood fruit - 2009
Study area for the Cape Parrot Project: the Amathole mountain range
between Stutterheim and Hogsback - 2009
Volunteer tracking Rock Hyrax to monitor their
posr-release survival after rehabilitation - 2007
Leopard Tortoise released near Ndumu Reserve,
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 2006
Samango Monkey in captivity - Problem
animal?
Woodland Kingfisher in cardboard nest
box - successfully fledged 3 chicks.
Samango Monkey feeding on acorns. Are these
better than indigenous food resources or are the
natural forests depleted - 2010
Rock Hyrax prior to re-introduction into Umgeni
Valley River Reserve, KZN, South Africa - 2009
Cape Parrots dead due to unknown causes.
Perhaps poisoning? - 2004
Cape Parrot interested in Graham
Russell, Hogsback, South Africa- 2009
Cape Parrot at a endangered parrot breeding centre in Cape Town - 2010
Male Meyer's Parrot regurgitating insect
larvae to female in nest cavity, Okvango
Delta, Botswana - March 2007
Updated:  3/04/2010
Administrator:  Dr. Steve Boyes  BScFor (NatCon) MEnvDev(PAM) PhD Zoology
DST/NRF Centre of Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow: Percy FitzPatrick Institute
University of Cape Town, South Africa
E-mail:  boyes@africaskyblue.org
              steve.boyes@bigfig.com
              rs.boyes@uct.ac.za
    AfricaSkyBlue AMAZING LINKS AND VIDEO CLIPS:            ...changes once a week
    AfricaSkyBlue RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION WORK:
BBC and Sir David Attenborough present the amazing Lyre bird...
This is truly an amazing feat of nature.
Hearing his own doom? A must see...
Palm Cockatoo using a tool to drum
for females. Parrots will not cease
to amaze us...  
First ever footage of Cape Parrots feeding in the high canopy.
This is a rare view into the life of this Critically Endangered
African parrot in the wild...
Dr. Steve Boyes talks about Cape Parrots and the Forest
Ambassadors Project that he recently launched with Dr.
Kirsten Wimberger in Afromontane forest patches scattered
along the Amathole mountain range, South Africa.
    AfricaSkyBlue Wilderness is a non-
    profit organization that facilitates innovative, high-
    quality applied wildlife conservation, research and
    filming projects in the remote wilderness areas of
    Africa and its associated islands. We facilitate
    research in all sub-Saharan countries and islands,
    providing scientific, legal, logistical and technical
    support for independent researchers, filmmakers
    and explorers from universities, conservation
    NGOs, and government. To submit project
    proposals or to arrange a consultation regarding
    your proposed project, please e-mail founder, Dr.
    Steve Boyes, to discuss your options and begin
    your journey into the African wilderness.

    Our current research focus is the Forest Ambassadors Project, which is a collaboration between the Wild Bird Trust,
    Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Primate Conservation Unit (University of Fort Hare), and AfricaSkyBlue.

    Deforestation rates in Africa are twice that of anywhere else in the world. In a recent review of all African parrot range
    states, we found that over 90% of these countries had deforestation rates over 10% per year and only had 1-25% of their
    primary forests remaining. As forest specialists, we have chosen the Cape Parrot and Samango Monkey as
    ambassadors of the Afromontane mistbelt forest along the Amathole mountain range in the Eastern Cape, South Africa -
    one of the largest-remaining archipelagos of Afromontane forest patches in Africa.

    In the Okavango Delta, we are running the Okavango Nest Box Project, which surveys the cavity nesting bird, mammal
    and reptile communities in a wilderness area, and the Okavango Wetland Birds Project, which focuses on unlocking the
    secrets of the Slaty Egret, Wattled Crane, African Openbill, and many others.

    We are conducting bird surveys along the Machangula Peninsula and within the Maputo Special Reserve in Mozambique
    for a book on the birds of the region, the Maputoland Centre of Endemism.
Wilderness