South Africa's sandfish are on the brink of extinctio...
Decades of predation by introduced non-native fishes and excessive withdrawal of water contributing to rapid decline of sandfish ranges.
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Decades of predation by introduced non-native fishes and excessive withdrawal of water contributing to rapid decline of sandfish ranges.
Landowners are helping with transporting rescued sandfish and replacing old instream fencing with sandfish friendly fencing.
Sandfish keep the rivers clean and the food web balanced but their numbers are declining. Farmers are helping to lift these numbers.
Saving Sandfish Project has conservationists, farmers, landowners and other stakeholders working together
This article discusses the development and implementation of a mobile GIS catch-and-release system for documenting large surface artifact scatters along the Doring River in South Africa. An integrated, cloud-based mobile GIS solution was built using a suite of ESRI ArcGIS applications with an aim to maximize the speed and breadth of techno-typological data capture, while minimizing data collection errors and post-processing requirements. The system was successfully implemented during the 2019 field season of the Doring River Archaeological Project. With the ability for project-specific customi...