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Updates

March 2008
Malolotja Environmental Education and Community Outreach pages updated.

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Environmental Education
Community Outreach

February 2008
Update of contact information, visitor information, facilities and activities, tariffs, new reservations email addresses. More photos added.

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Contact Info
Bookings
Activities
Facilities
Tariffs
Photos

February 2008
Lubombo Conservancy
The Lubombo Conservancy comprises of five established reserves that include Mlawula Nature Reserve, Shewula Nature Reserve, Mbuluzi Game reserve, Hlane National Park and Inyoni Yami Swaziland Irrigation Scheme (IYSIS), and is an integral part of the greater Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation Area (LTFCA), which was formulated through a collective trilateral agreement between the governments of Swaziland, Mozambique and South Africa. The five conservation areas are hosts to the most extensive and historical conservation area within the Kingdom of Swaziland, with approximately 60 000 hectares of continuous block of land that can be utilised to enhance conservation efforts in the country.

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Lubombo Conservancy
Lubombo-Goba
Transfrontier Conservation Areas

January 2008
Research Projects: Information on All Out's projects in Malolotja and Mlawula Nature Reserves

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Research Projects
Malolotja Research
Mlawula Research
All-Out

January 2008
Updating of names in the flora database, as well as addition of more photos.

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Swaziland Flora Database

January 2008
Over 400 new photos added to the Flora database, bringing the total number of species represented to 940 species.

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Swaziland Flora Database

December 2007
Completion of addition of illustrations of ferns, and another batch of photos added to the flora database. This database now includes photos or illustrations of about 20% of the flora (733 out of a total of 3581 species).

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Swaziland Flora Database

November 2007
Swaziland Flora Database: addition of more photos, bringing the total to 1576 photos, and a total of 695 species represented.

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Swaziland Flora Database

November 2007
Minor reorganisation of categories in the photos section of the website, and the addition of a few more photos.

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Photos

October 2007
Maphelephele Cottage at Mlawula Nature Reserve has been upgraded to sleep eight, with two upper (baboon-proofed) sleeping porches with a double bed on each, in addition to the two rooms inside, with two twin beds in each. The cottage includes full bath, sitting room with fireplace, braai area, gas hot water, oven/stove and refrigerator. No electricity. Kitchen utensils, bedding and towels supplied.

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Facilities
Mlawula Nature Reserve

October 2007
Swaziland Digital Archives:
Additional photos included, captions updated, website updated to a dynamic format, search feature added.
Swaziland Digital Archives

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Swazi History

October 2007
New photo slideshow added: Umhlanga (Reed Dance)
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Photos
Swazi Culture
The Umhlanga

January 2007
Further development of the Flora Database: addition of browse photos by family feature, addition of about 100 new photos.

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Swaziland Flora Database

January 2007
Addition of over 300 new photos to the flora database.

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Swaziland Flora Database

August 2006
Search by photographer feature added to Swaziland Flora Database pages

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Swaziland Flora Database

August 2006
About 140 photos of flowers have been added to the flora database. More will be added soon.

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Swaziland Flora Database

June 2006
"The Lubombo Route" page added under the Tourism section of the website. This contains the Press Release of the launch of this route at Indaba 2006.

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The Lubombo Route

May 2006
Transfrontier Conservation Areas programme: new brochure "The Lubombo Route" now available for downloading.

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Transfrontier Conservation Areas

April 2006
Addition of about 150 photos to the flora database, including many tree species.

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Swaziland Flora Database

April 2006
Photos page updated to include new Slideshows component.

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Photos

March 2006
Swaziland Bird Atlas - based on digital information provided by the Avian Demography Unit, , Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, distribution maps have been incorporated into this website.

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Swaziland's Birds

March 2006
Swaziland Tree Atlas - this project was undertaken by Linda and Paul Loffler, and has now been published by SABONET. Distribution information at the eighth degree grid square level has been incorporated into the Swaziland Plants Database.

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Swaziland Flora Database
Swaziland's Tree Atlas

March 2006
Swaziland's Alien Plants Database - detailed species descriptions, distribution maps, illustrations and photos.

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Swaziland's Alien Plants Database

March 2006
Swaziland Flora Database - now available online

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Objectives
Swaziland Flora Database

March 2006
Complete revision of website, addition of dynamic content.

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