Two of southern Africa’s threatened vulture species are on a collision course with a controversial wind farming project in Lesotho that threatens to wipe them out.
PowerNET Developments is planning to build the Letšeng wind farm on the north-eastern escarpment of the Drakensberg in Lesotho largely to increase power generation and distribution in the small mountain kingdom. But bird experts are worried that the proposed wind farm is located within critical habitat for the globally significant populations of the already-declining Bearded Vulture and Cape Vulture populations, which are “collision-prone” birds. Read more
I kept a respectful distance and watched as they joined up and started a series of dances and songs. I had to leave for an important meeting at one of the primary schools so I reluctantly started walking down the hill when I heard the Litsoejane group coming down behind me. 
Once again, a group of Wittenberg students and faculty members are in Lesotho, this time giving their entire break between semesters in the 2012-13 school year to making a difference in one of the most impoverished nations on earth. The traveling party landed in Lesotho on Saturday, Dec. 15, and will return to the United States just in time for the start of classes on Monday, Jan. 7. 
