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...
Jun 4, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Content by Dr Jan Venter (NMU) George – Three titans of the modern scientific movement have come together in the SnapshotSafari-SA FBIP-funded project. SnapshotSafari-SA brings together a potent cocktail of frontier scientific activities including among other things...
Jun 3, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has announced a call for projects from sub-Saharan Africa. The funding covers the cost of collecting existing data and capturing this in a suitable database and submitting to GBIF. GBIF has...
Apr 24, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Extension of cut-off dates for applications for funding – 15 May 2020: The NRF extended the cut-off dates for applications for funding for the FBIP Concept Notes for Large Integrated Projects and FBIP Small grant (1st review period) to facilitate the challenges...
Mar 21, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – Recent reports have made a link between the Covid-19 viral outbreak and forest degradation – today the FBIP observes International Day of Forests 2020 by reflecting on its Eastern Cape Forests project. Despite the present pandemonium around the...