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Treasures found nowhere else – an interview with bird guide Lethukuthula Nxele

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22 August 2025,
As part of our Women’s Month celebration, we’re speaking to some of South Africa’s most inspiring female bird guides. Lethukuthula Nxele is one of BirdLife South Africa’s Community Bird Guides based in northern KwaZulu-Natal. After qualify as a guide in 2016, Lethu based herself in Umlalazi Nature Reserve where she covers nearby birding sites including...

Birds open doors – an interview with specialist bird guide, Thabile Mthiyane

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13 August 2025,
As part of our Women’s Month celebration, we’re speaking to some of South Africa’s most inspiring female bird guides. First up is Thabile Mthiyane, one of the country’s most respected area specialists. Since graduating from BirdLife South Africa’s Avitourism Project in 2000, she has spent 25 years guiding birders through KwaZulu-Natal’s finest destinations, from Dlinza...

Tuning in to David Letsoalo 

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14 November 2024,
BirdLife South Africa’s 2022 Conservation Hero, renowned bird guide David Letsoalo, talks birds, pizzas, perfect tunes and making friends in Manhattan’s Central Park. What got you started in birding? I was born in the area behind Moria, the Zionist Christian Church (ZCC) in Limpopo, but I grew up in Magoebaskloof and went to Appel Farm...