Oct 3, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – In July 2019 the FBIP funded several postgraduate students with travel grants to attend the 39th Zoological Society of Southern Africa (ZSSA) Congress. Here is what they had to say about the event… “The presentations were very...
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...
Sep 16, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Pretoria – The two-day workshop aimed to familiarise participants with the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD) – the only informatics platform dedicated to DNA barcoding. The workshop was structured into two main sessions: lectures in the mornings and...
Sep 3, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Pretoria – The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) is pleased to announce a 3-day workshop supported through the Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP). We aim to introduce participants to the fundamentals of biodiversity data management and...
Aug 28, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Presenter: S. Veldsman – Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) Pretoria – Concurrent advances towards the 4th Industrial Revolution such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) and robotics are expected to enable tremendous...
Aug 26, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Presenter: S. Deyzel – SAEON, Dept of Zoology CMR NMMU Pretoria – The contribution of plankton to biogeochemical cycling and conservation of energy within aquatic food webs is widely recognised, as is their usefulness for monitoring changing environmental...
