HAWAAN FOREST CONSERVATION TRUST MONTHLY SITE INSPECTION REPORT:
i.The monthly site visit to the Hawaan Forest by A. Starke was conducted on the 19.09.2022.
ii. Items checked during the visit are detailed in the table on page6. Further to those items, the site visits entailed ongoing planting of new wildflower species in the grassland areas, checking up on the staff and facilitating clearing of vegetation on the pipeline.
iii. Patrols by HCT during September revealed no snares in the western and north-west portion of the forest.
iv. The forest is still extremely dry and no significant rain has fallen yet in September. However, some summer migrant birds such as Yellow-billed Kites and Klaas’s cuckoo have returned from their equatorial winter retreats.
vi. Action items for October are to continue sourcing (and plant) wildflowers into the grassland restoration nodes and to start clearing the pipeline of overgrown vegetation.
