Mar 4, 2021 | BioGaps, News
Cape Town – A recent study has drawn attention to the abnormal development of trapdoor spiders in the Karoo, with possible links to the use of chemicals in the region now earmarked for shale gas exploration. Among other hypotheses, PhD student Shannon...
Oct 12, 2020 | BioGaps, News
During dry times, birds in the Karoo descend to water and drinking troughs sometimes in their hundreds. But now competition between sheep and birds for access to this essential ingredient to life has another competitor: mining and industry, the most controversial of...
Jun 18, 2020 | BioGaps, News
By Zimkita Mavumengwana & Dane McDonald Cape Town – The FBIP and SANBI is pleased to announce that the Karoo BioGaps Project has come to an end. The aim of the Karoo BioGaps Project was to assemble foundational species data in the Karoo region. This was done...
Mar 3, 2020 | BioGaps, News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – Today the FBIP celebrates World Wildlife Day 2020 with the global community, as we continue to work towards building a solid foundational biodiversity knowledge base in South Africa. This year World Wildlife Day is being celebrated under the theme...
Sep 17, 2019 | BioGaps, News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – A recent study has shown that mammal data alone is not a good indicator for making decisions about where fracking could be carried out without impacting on biodiversity, yet the data should form a key part of the baseline data from the larger Karoo BioGaps...
