Red List Species of the Day - 8th April

The Gilded Presba is listed as 'Vulnerable' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the Gilded Presba is a large dragonfly that lives in the Cape Fold Mountains of South Africa and are capable of remarkably powerful flight, emerging from the cool mountain streams and then swiftly up and over the mountains.

They owe their vulnerable status to the introduction of invasive alien trees which aggressivly spread along the stream anad river banks shading out their habitat and eventually squeezing out much of the local flora and fauna.