Feb 19, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Pretoria – The Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP) calls for large and small grants 2019 have opened; South African researchers are encouraged to apply. For an overview of the FBIP, feel free to consult the programme’s Framework Document 2019. Large...
Feb 8, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Pretoria – The Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP) is offering a Proposal Writing Workshop to be held at Pretoria, on Wednesday, 13 March 2019 as part of its Capacity Development Programme – the workshop is aimed at academics in the...
Feb 5, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
One would not usually associate high numbers of parasites with a healthy ecosystem, yet this is exactly what was shown by a study on frog ‘haemoparasites’ in KwaZulu-Natal. A parasite is an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and...
Dec 13, 2018 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Updates by Mika Vermeulen It was incredibly exciting news when we found a camera trap image of a leopard in the Karoo National Park – the first record for this National Park. The Snapshot Safari – South Africa study has funding until the end of 2020 and the camera...
Dec 5, 2018 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
The FBIP Karoo BioGaps ‘mammal team’ has wrapped up their operations for the project, according to team member Zoe Woodgate. Woodgate says the last two years have been filled with fieldwork, data processing and analysis. Woodgate together with Nadine...
Nov 29, 2018 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Two new wasp species have been named in honor of late South African statesman Nelson Mandela and the Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The two wasps, described by the study authors as ‘two entomological gems’, were found in the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of...
