Southern African Butterfly Conservation Assessment

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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*Please note: If I have (unintentionally) omitted anyone or any institution from the acknowledgements, please inform me.*

SABCA is a joint project between the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI, core funding through their partnership with the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment), the Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa (LepSoc; co-funding, expertise) and the Animal Demography Unit (University of Cape Town) (ADU, project management). The South African Biodiversity Information Facility has provided a grant towards data digitization.

DATA CONTRIBUTORS

SABCA is very grateful to the following institutions/individuals for sharing their butterfly distribution data with SABCA (these lists aren’t final and will be updated as more data providers contribute their data to SABCA):

Institutions

• African Butterfly Research Institute, Kenya
• Albany Museum
• Durban Natural Science Museum
• East London Museum
• Iziko South African Museum
• Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife
• Natal Museum
• National Museum
• Natural History Museum, London
• Plant Protection Research Institute (Agricultural Research Council)
• Skukuza Biological Reference Collection
• Tansvaal Museum
• Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency (formerly Transvaal Provincial Administration)
• Transvaal Museum

Individuals

• Alan Heath (LepSoc)
• Alf Curle (LepSoc)
• Americo Bonkewitz (LepSoc; Guy Nicolson CC)
• Andre Claassens (LepSoc)
• Andrew Morton (LepSoc)
• Bill Steele (LepSoc)
• Brian & Lizelle Plowes (LepSoc)
• Dave Edge (LepSoc)
• Doug Kroon (LepSoc)
• Ernest Pringle (LepSoc)
• Jenny Norman (LepSoc)
• John Paul Niehaus (LepSoc)
• John White (LepSoc)
• Jonathan Ball (LepSoc)
• Peter & Trish Dinkelmann
• Richard Dobson
• RJ Bennett
• Roy Wagner
• Sally Adam
• Silvia Mecenero
• Simon Joubert (LepSoc)
• Steve Woodhall (LepSoc)
• Tim Waters

LepSoc’s conservation advisor, Graham Henning, attended to taxonomic queries in the databases. The following LepSoc members are thanked for verifying or identifying records at some of the institutions: Steve Woodhall, Kevin Cockburn, Richard Stevens, Andre Coetzer, Ernest Pringle.

The assistance of the following people in training or supervising data technicians during the digitization process is greatly appreciated:

Ashley Kirk-Spriggs (Albany and National Museums), Blanca Huertas (Natural History Museum, London), Kirstin Williams (Durban Natural Science Museum), Margie Cochrane (Iziko South African Musem), Martin Kruger (Transvaal Museum), Mike Mostovski (Natal Museum), Ross Urban (PPRI, ARC), Sarah Gess (Albany Museum), Steve Collins (ABRI, Kenya), Vivienne Uys (PPRI, ARC).

The hosting of SABCA’s data technician by various LepSoc members during the digitization of their collections is much appreciated.

VIRTUAL MUSEUM

All citizen scientists (over 150 members of the public) who have submitted photographs to the virtual museum are thanked for their keen participation.

SABCA thanks the following expert panel members (mainly LepSoc members) for volunteering their time to the virtual museum:

Andre Coetzer, Andrew Morton, Bennie Coetzer, Brian Plowes, Christopher Willis (SANBI), Dave Edge, Doug Kroon, Graham Henning, Harald Selb, Hermann Staude, Jenny Norman, Jeremy Dobson, John Joannou, Jonathan Ball, John Paul Niehaus, Kevin Cockburn, Lizelle Plowes, Mark Williams, Peter Webb, Steve Woodhall

We are grateful to the following sponsors of our virtual museum competition prizes:

Africa Geographic, JAH & Associates Environmental Consultancy, LepSoc, Struik Publishers

FIELD SURVEYS

The following SABCA field team members, accredited members of LepSoc, are thanked for their time in conducting surveys for SABCA. Those marked with an asterisk are the Provincial Leaders and their time and hard work in coordinating surveys in the provinces they are responsible for is much appreciated (those members enclosed by brackets are no longer team members):

Bennie Coetzer*, Andre Coetzer*, David McDermott*, Graham Henning*, Kevin Cockburn*, Peter Roos*, Reinier Terblanche*, Andrew Morton*, Ernest Pringle*, Jeremy Dobson*, Christopher Dobson*, David Edge*, Adrian Armstrong, Alan Heath, Alf Curle, Americo Bonkewitzz, Andre Claassens, Andre Marais, Andrew Mayer, (Alan Plowes), (Anthony Brinkman), Brian Plowes, Daniel Rossouw, (Devan van der Merwe), Douglas Kroon, Doug Morton, Harald Selb, Heinz Ortmann, Henk Geertsema, Chris Ficq, Hermann Staude, Jonathan Ball*, John Joannou, John Paul Niehaus, John White, Keith Roos, Mark Williams, Martin Kruger, Martin Lunderstedt, Neville Curle, Owen Garvie, Quentin Austin, Ray Jones, Richard Dobson, Richard Stephen, Rudolf Swart, Shaun Walton, Stephen Woodhall, Tim Gilbert, Bill Steele, Barry Mee, Claudia Koch, Dietmar Ley, Herman Gustav Butler, Etienne Terblanche, Michelle Hamer, Peter Sharland, Raimund Schutte, Wayne Forrester, Jeff Crocombe.

The surveys would not be possible without the support received from nature conservation agencies and other departments/companies managing areas of interest, in the form of permits and licenses:

• CapeNature (Western Cape Province)
• Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Environment (Gauteng Province)
• Department of Agriculture, Conservation, Environment and Tourism (North-West Province)
• Department of Economic Development and Environmental Affairs (Eastern Cape Province)
• Department of Nature and Environmental Conservation (Northern Cape Province)
• Department of Tourism, Environmental and Economic Affairs (Free State Province)
• Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (Mpumalanga, Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape)
• Eastern Cape Parks Board
• Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife,(KwaZulu-Natal Province)
• iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority (formerly the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park Authority)
• Komatiland Forestry
• Department of Economic Development, Environment & Tourism (Limpopo Province)
• Mondi Business Paper and Mondi Shanduka
• Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency (Mpumalanga Province)
• MTO Forestry
• North West Parks and Tourism Board
• SAPPI Forests
• South African National Parks
• All landowners who allowed members of the SABCA field team onto their property are gratefully acknowledged.

CONSERVATION ASSESSMENTS

The authors of the conservation assessments and editors of the Red Data Book and Atlas are as follows (all are members of LepSoc unless otherwise stated):

Authors

Adrian Armstrong, Andre Coetzer, Bennie Coetzer, Chris Dobson, Dave Edge, Dave McDermott, Ernest Pringle, Graham Henning, Harald Selb, Jenny Norman, Jeremy Dobson, Jonathan Ball, Kevin Cockburn, Mark Williams, Reinier Terblanche, Steve Woodhall.

Editors

Dave Edge, Ernest Pringle, Graham Henning, Jonathan Ball, Mark Williams, Michelle Hamer (SANBI), Silvia Mecenero (UCT).

Reference lists were kindly provided by Jonathan Ball and Mark Williams to initiate the bibliography.

SABCA’S STEERING COMMITTEE

The SteerCo comprises of members from relevant stakeholder institutions (names in brackets are no longer part of the SteerCo, those with an asterisk form the Executive Committee):

• Adrian Armstrong (Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, LepSoc)
• Bennie Coetzer* (LepSoc)
• Graham Henning (LepSoc)
• Hendrik Sithole (SANParks)
• (James Harrison (ADU, UCT))
• (John Donaldson (SANBI))
• Les Underhill* (ADU, UCT)
• Martin Kruger (Transvaal Museum)
• Michelle Hamer* (SANBI, formerly UKZN, Chair)
• Reinier Terblanche (LepSoc, formerly University of Potchefstroom)
• Silvia Mecenero (ADU, UCT)
• Solly Nkoana* (SANBI)
• (Wendy Foden (SANBI))

SABCA’S MANAGEMENT TEAM

The management of SABCA is based at the ADU (UCT) and the team consists of:

• Les Underhill (Project Leader)
• (James Harrison (Project Manager – no longer team member))
• Linda Tsipa (Administrative Assistant)
• Rene Navarro (Information Technology Manager)
• Silvia Mecenero (Project Leader)
• Sue Kuyper (Contract Manager)
• Data technicians (past and present, full-time* and ad-hoc): AlbertLarkeson, Anne Pringle, DaindreeNaidoo, Danie Roussouw, Denise Lesch, Evelyn Maleka, Gareth Nicholson, GeronBarnes, Henry Ferguson-Gow, HermienFourie, Ian Sharp, Laurendavan Breda*, Lizzy Masingita, Lungelo Ndaba*, Mariette Wheeler*, Mary Bursey, Mary Kirk-Spriggs, Nkosinathi Mbele, Prideel Madjiet*, ShannonHampton, Tanya Pretorius, ThaboPhasoana.

LepSoc members contributing towards the management of SABCA are:

• Bennie Coetzer (Data and Information Technology Manager)
• Graham Henning (Conservation Advisor)
• Hermann Staude, new term by Steve Woodhall (Project director)
• Owen Garvie, new term by Dave Edge (Financial Officer)

OTHER

Various LepSoc and SABCA participants have assisted with manning SABCA stands at exhibitions, as well as some LepSoc members have given SABCA presentations, for which SABCA is grateful.