Designated Authority Cut-off date: 16 May 2022 Small Grants The Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) in partnership with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) are pleased to announce the...
The Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme’s (FBIP’s) sixth Large Grant project focusing on the Waterberg region in Limpopo Province is in full swing as several taxon teams started combing the region’s landscape for scores of specimens that will put the...
Adapted from an article by Pieter Bester Original article first published in SANBI Gazette The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) National Herbarium – Pretoria – is a collaborator on the Waterberg Biodiversity Project and during...
By Dr Lara Atkinson, SAEON Egagasini Node, SeaMap Principal Investigator This article was first published in the SAEON eNews SeaMap is a brand new South African marine project, recently awarded to SAEON’s Egagasini Node through the Foundational Biodiversity...
Somewhere in the deep recesses of the Iziko Museum in Cape Town, there is a small glass jar containing a dark, lifeless, spherical creature with eight protruding legs. The jar is two-thirds filled with the preserving chemical – ethanol – and is plugged with a wad of...
The FBIP Waterberg Biodiversity Project is gaining momentum as the invertebrate and herpetology teams arrived to carry out sampling this week… Invertebrates Dr Tharina Bird and Prof Lorenzo Prendini arrived at the Waterberg on Sunday. Dr Bird is the curator of...
