Sep 1, 2020 | News
By Prof Karin Jacobs The large FBIP project on the characterisation of microbiomes of wheat and maize under conventional and conservation agricultural has been running for 18 months. The goal of the project is to characterise the microbial communities associated with...
Aug 24, 2020 | News
Key points: Allowable limit for bloodworm collection unchanged since the 1970sBloodworm populations not as vulnerable as previously predictedChance of population extinctions remain, management to be maintained Cape Town – The legal number of bloodworm that can be...
Aug 11, 2020 | News
By Betsie Milne, Postdoctoral Fellow: Wetland Ecologist, SAEON Arid Lands Node A rare fairy shrimp, Pumilibranchipus deserti, was discovered for the first time in South Africa after being recorded only once from a single locality in Namibia during the 1980s....
Jul 13, 2020 | News
Cape Town – A recent FBIP-funded endeavour has turned the tables on the conservation status of a freshwater stream fish, the Maloti minnow, thought to be extinct. Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife Freshwater Ecologist Skhumbuzo Kubheka presented his finding to a recent Symposium...
Jul 10, 2020 | News
Cape Town – The very poorly studied Stormberg has received focused botanical attention for the duration of an FBIP Small Grant to Prof Nigel Barker. The Stormberg forms part of Southern Africa’s 5000km-long Great Escarpment – a so called...
