Public talk by Dr. John Irish: B(io)randberg: biodiversity on Namibia's highest mountain
The talk continues the Brandberg theme for the year by looking at the living things on the mountain. It considers Brandberg relative to other high Namibian mountains and discusses why altitude is important to some life forms. It describes the biogeographical processes that cause endemism and relict species on some high mountain peaks. Finally it looks at what we actually know about Brandberg biodiversity, and what we still need to learn.
John Irish was trained as an entomologist. He formerly worked at two different museums, the National Biodiversity Programme, the National Botanical Institute, Gobabeb and lately as an environmental consultant.
Wednesday, 3rd October at 19h30. Venue is Namibia Scientific Society, Robert Mugabe Ave 110, Windhoek.

Please help us fill in the gaps.

• * Location where the carnivore was seen (coordinates – either GPS or monad (1 minute by 1 minute grid), pentad (5’ x 5’ grid), ¼ degree square (15’ x 15’ grid), or farm name with farm number and district / region, or description of location (e.g. lodge name and general location)
• * Date when the sighting was made
• * Species seen
• Any other information would be useful, such as:
  • whether the species is common or unusual
  • farm type (cattle/game/mixed/tourism/hunting)
  • fencing type (cattle/short game fence/high game fence/predator proof fence)
• One or more photographs of the carnivores would be useful, particularly for the smaller, less easy to identify species. If you are not sure of the identification, please just send the photo with date and place, and our carnivore specialists will identify it for you. Please do not send hundreds of camera trap photos of the same species at the same location – just a few at each location in different months. If you prefer to upload photos to a Dropbox, Google Drive, or other storage system please get in touch with the details. 

Data from Namibia's Game counts have been uploaded into the Atlasing in Namibia system. This is a massive addition of over 86,000 records of mammals, collected between 1992 and 2016.

Game counts as part of Namibia's CBNRM programme: Regular game counts are undertaken in Zambezi, North West, South, North Central, Kavango. More information on these including methodogy and summarised results is available from the NACSO website.

Game counts in NamPlace landscapes: These include counts in the Greater Sossusvlei-Namib Landscape and the Greater Fish River Canyon Landscape. More information on the counts is available from the Greater Fish River Canyon Landscape website and the Greater Sossusvlei-Namib website.

To avoid inadvertently providing criminals with valuable location for species such as rhino, information wildlife photographer Olwen Evans has assembled this how-to guide. 

The booklet provides good information on how to remove location metadata (coordinates) from your photos. THIS IS NOT NECESSARY FOR THE ATLASING IN NAMIBIA SITE because the Atlasing in Namibia site does it automatically when you upload your photos. However, if you submit wildlife photos to other sites, you may need to do this manually.

When you submit information to the Atlasing in Namibia website for any sensitive species, please make sure that if you do enter exact coordinates you set the Sensitivity to blur to e.g. 100km.