Apr 3, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Is my project within the scope of the FBIP? Is it biodiversity? Is it related to the bio-economy and/or global change? Is it relevant to understanding what species we have?Where they are?Does it help with identification of species/taxa or compile information in the...
Mar 21, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – Recent reports have made a link between the Covid-19 viral outbreak and forest degradation – today the FBIP observes International Day of Forests 2020 by reflecting on its Eastern Cape Forests project. Despite the present pandemonium around the...
Mar 3, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – Today the FBIP celebrates World Wildlife Day 2020 with the global community, as we continue to work towards building a solid foundational biodiversity knowledge base in South Africa. This year World Wildlife Day is being celebrated under the theme...
Mar 1, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – In February the President’s SONA speech was dominated by the SA economic crisis, leaving little room for addressing biodiversity, two weeks later the same happened in the Finance Minister’s Budget 2020 – only this time a ‘totem plant’ gave us...
Feb 26, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
ASIDE from mentioning the fact that South Africa has an exceptional wealth of plant and animal diversity, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s SONA did not reveal the importance of biodiversity to sustainable societies, economic development, job creation and food security....
Feb 24, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – The South African Earth Observation Network (SAEON) in partnership with the FBIP last week successfully hosted a two-day workshop with a focus on “Data Manipulation and Visualisation in R for Ecologists” at St. Ives Lodge and Venue in Lion Rivers in...
Feb 20, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – The Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP) will be hosting a workshop to support academics in improving the quality of their research proposals for FBIP-NRF funding. The FBIP recently put out its Call for Research Proposals for 2020....
Feb 13, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Updated 11:00 – 13/02/2020 Applications for FBIP Concept Notes for Large Grants and FBIP Small Grants are now open. Researchers based at NRF recognised research institutions in South Africa are eligible to apply (Postdoctoral fellows and students are not...
Jan 20, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – The presence of several important bat species has been confirmed in the Mapungubwe National Park in the north of South Africa, with the use of acoustic detection. According to Prof Dan Parker from the School of Biology and Environmental Sciences at...
Jan 19, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – A team of researchers are set to explore the uncharted territories of life in the agricultural soil microbiome. The team received funding from the Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP) to conduct the Large Scale Project. In an...
