Somewhere in the deep recesses of the Iziko Museum in Cape Town, there is a small glass jar containing a dark, lifeless, spherical creature with eight protruding legs. The jar is two-thirds filled with the preserving chemical – ethanol – and is plugged with a wad of...
The FBIP Waterberg Biodiversity Project is gaining momentum as the invertebrate and herpetology teams arrived to carry out sampling this week… Invertebrates Dr Tharina Bird and Prof Lorenzo Prendini arrived at the Waterberg on Sunday. Dr Bird is the curator of...
At the end of November 2021, the FBIP said farewell to its programme coordinator, Dr Lita Pauw. Lita served the FBIP for seven years from 2015 and said she is currently enjoying a self-declared ‘sabbatical’. Former FBIP programme manager, Prof Michelle Hamer, who...
