Aug 21, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Presenter: K. Naicker – Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Pretoria – The overwhelming evidence of the IPBES Global Assessment, from a wide range of different fields of knowledge, presents a dire scenario: 1 million plant and animal...
Aug 21, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Presenter: U. Rust – Department of Science and Innovation Pretoria – The recent update of SA’s science, technology and innovation (STI) policy, more than 20 years after the 1996 White Paper on Science and Technology, was prompted by rapid...
Aug 20, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Pretoria – The FBIP postgraduate student forum has been shifted to the forefront of the main Joint Biodiversity Information Management & Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme Forum with many lessons being learnt. SANBI Chief Director for...
Jul 29, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Updated 23/03/2020 Cape Town – A ‘fine-scale’ study on velvet worms has raised the flag for better protection of South Africa’s threatened forest habitats. According to Prof Savel Daniels and honours student Aaron Barnes from the University of Stellenbosch, South...
Jul 25, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – An FBIP-funded postgraduate student, Fortunate Phaka, has been named among News24’s 100 Young Mandelas under the category, ‘vision’. According to the feature article published on News24 Phaka, 32, is an environmental scientist and...
Jul 19, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – Several Snapshot Safari South Africa team members are jetting off to Malaysia to share progress on the huge camera trap project at the International Congress for Conservation Biology. The congress is held by the Society for Conservation Biology,...
