We continue to monitor over 500 vulture nests across the Kalahari and Karoo, keeping a finger on the pulse of vulture population trends and breeding performance. This vital work is key to maintaining our presence in the landscape and engaging continuously with landowners to address issues involving vultures and their habitat. We are gaining ground traction in the Kalahari, where we have made good progress with the landowners of STS Meletse, a large network of properties and reserves spanning over 30,000 ha in the Askham area of the Northern Cape, to commit their property to become our first Kalahari-based Vulture Safe Zone. This area is home to over 100 breeding pairs of White-backed vultures and a significant site for breeding birds in the Kalahari. This will certainly be good news for the protection of this breeding cluster. One noteworthy success here has been the phasing out of leaded ammunition and working with landowners to ensure that the carcasses from animals shot with lead-containing ammunition are not exposed and made available to foraging vultures.