Map: SANBI When you look at a map of the vegetation of South Africa, the right half of the map is nearly dominated by one particular biome – grasslands. The grassland biome covers nearly a third of South Africa’s land area (339 237km2). Grasslands might bring up...
Original article courtesy of SAEON SeaMap is a brand new South African marine project, recently awarded to SAEON’s Egagasini Node through the Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP). Safiyya Sedick’s key focus in earlier roles has been describing new...
R20 million per year. This is the estimated crop loss and control costs caused by fruit flies in the Western Cape alone. Moreover, a quarantine ban on the export of South African fruit due to the presence of fruit flies can be devastating to the economic welfare of...
Members of the small mammal team carried out sampling at the Swebeswebe Nature Reserve and Hanover Nature Reserve sites this week. The team was led by Prof. Daniel Parker (University of Mpumalanga), one of the primary investigators on the Waterberg Biodiversity...
The unique freshwater biodiversity of South Africa is under increasing pressure from multiple impacts including global climate change, habitat degradation, hydrological modification through excessive water abstraction, as well as the spread of invasive species. The...
