Jun 4, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Content by Dr Jan Venter (NMU) George – Three titans of the modern scientific movement have come together in the SnapshotSafari-SA FBIP-funded project. SnapshotSafari-SA brings together a potent cocktail of frontier scientific activities including among other things...
Jun 3, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has announced a call for projects from sub-Saharan Africa. The funding covers the cost of collecting existing data and capturing this in a suitable database and submitting to GBIF. GBIF has...
Apr 24, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Extension of cut-off dates for applications for funding – 15 May 2020: The NRF extended the cut-off dates for applications for funding for the FBIP Concept Notes for Large Integrated Projects and FBIP Small grant (1st review period) to facilitate the challenges...
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 | BioGaps, 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....
