OPEN CALL: Nominations for 2023 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award

OPEN CALL: Nominations for 2023 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award

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...
600 “climate indicator” strains deposited into ARC fungi vault

600 “climate indicator” strains deposited into ARC fungi vault

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...
FBIP Waterberg project kicks off 2023 with dung beetle survey

FBIP Waterberg project kicks off 2023 with dung beetle survey

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...