Batis Birding Safaris Cc

Steve Braine has been involved with ornithology and natural history within Namibia from a very young age, contributing invaluable data to Namibian Ornithology and natural history. During the past 30 years, he has also captured and ringed (banded) raptors and has contributed and published several articles on distribution and other aspects of ornithology in popular journals and magazines. He has discovered several new butterfly species as well as a species of desert beetle, Onymacris brainei in the northern Namib Desert as well as a sub-species of the Speckled Burrowing Skink Typlocontias puctatissimus brainei along the Skeleton Coast. After a three-year stint doing exploration geology work in the Namib Desert, he left to study Nature Conservation. Thereafter he joined the Namibian conservation department and spent 9 years in the Skeleton Coast Park, and two years in the Eastern Zambezi Region as a ranger/conservation official.