Apr 30, 2021 | News, SeaKeys
Cape Town – Researchers have uncovered three new ecologically important South African coralline algae species erroneously passing under the Japanese species name, Spongites yendoi. According to Prof Gavin W. Maneveldt from the Biodiversity and Conservation Biology...
May 12, 2018 | News, SeaKeys, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – South Africa’s Blue Economy vision for a stronger and sustainable ocean economy depends on the strength of its scientific foundation, says SAEON’s Dr Lara Atkinson. On Thursday the South African Earth Observation Network (SAEON) in collaboration with...
Dec 9, 2017 | News, SeaKeys, sustainability
As with most of the approximately 55 000 museums across the world, Iziko Museums of South Africa in Cape Town is the epitome of structure and organisation. Its displays are neat and orderly and the exhibition halls are characteristically dim, as its mounted specimens...
Nov 6, 2017 | News, SeaKeys, sustainability
A fun scramble on any rocky intertidal shore will often draw attention to many, common and fascinating creatures like seastars, anemones, mussels and barnacles. However, it takes a special kind of ‘observer’ to zone in on crusty patches of paint-like seaweeds dotted...
