R20 million per year. This is the estimated crop loss and control costs caused by fruit flies in the Western Cape alone. Moreover, a quarantine ban on the export of South African fruit due to the presence of fruit flies can be devastating to the economic welfare of...
Members of the small mammal team carried out sampling at the Swebeswebe Nature Reserve and Hanover Nature Reserve sites this week. The team was led by Prof. Daniel Parker (University of Mpumalanga), one of the primary investigators on the Waterberg Biodiversity...
The unique freshwater biodiversity of South Africa is under increasing pressure from multiple impacts including global climate change, habitat degradation, hydrological modification through excessive water abstraction, as well as the spread of invasive species. The...
Featured image: a floristic survey of hummock dunes at Brandfontein near Cape Agulhas in the Western Cape. The waves broke with a thunderous, yet hollow thump that I felt in my chest. It left me feeling exhausted and energised at the same time. There are...
CLOSING DATE: 30 May 2022 SANBI-GBIF Young Researchers Award Call by Dane McDonald on Scribd DOWNLOAD PDF: Open call for nominations for 2022 GBIF Young Researchers Award
Designated Authority Cut-off date: 16 May 2022 Small Grants The Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) in partnership with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) are pleased to announce the...
The Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme’s (FBIP’s) sixth Large Grant project focusing on the Waterberg region in Limpopo Province is in full swing as several taxon teams started combing the region’s landscape for scores of specimens that will put the...
Adapted from an article by Pieter Bester Original article first published in SANBI Gazette The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) National Herbarium – Pretoria – is a collaborator on the Waterberg Biodiversity Project and during...
By Dr Lara Atkinson, SAEON Egagasini Node, SeaMap Principal Investigator This article was first published in the SAEON eNews SeaMap is a brand new South African marine project, recently awarded to SAEON’s Egagasini Node through the Foundational Biodiversity...
Somewhere in the deep recesses of the Iziko Museum in Cape Town, there is a small glass jar containing a dark, lifeless, spherical creature with eight protruding legs. The jar is two-thirds filled with the preserving chemical – ethanol – and is plugged with a wad of...
