Prof Shelley Edwards and her colleagues have described a new species of Psammophylax and a new genus, named after Prof Bill Branch, Kladirostratus… The Grootswartberge (greater black mountain in Afrikaans), is a mountain range that runs along the southern...
Text by Department of Science and Innovation In a first for the country, a central repository, Biodiversity Biobanks South Africa (BBSA), was launched to conserve and manage biodiversity samples on 1 March 2023. BBSA is the coming together of a diverse group of...
The call is now open for the GBIF 2023 Graduate Researchers Award (previously the Young Researchers Award). The award fosters innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by graduate students in masters and doctorate programmes at universities, whose...
In 2017 several soil samples journeyed from the sparsely vegetated Karoo to the vault-like National Collection of Fungi (NCF) at the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) in Pretoria. Upon arrival at the facility, a meticulous process was initiated under the watchful...
Update by Marilize Greyling, project manager The new year has kicked off with a bang promising a fruitful year for biodiversity surveys and research for the FBIP Waterberg project. In the month of January, the project will see flora, arachnid, arthropod, mammal, and...