Dec 2, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – The Stellenbosch University Department of Genetics seeks a candidate to tackle an MSc project looking at olive lace bugs and olive flea beetles which cause injury to olive trees in South Africa. Olive lace bugs and olive flea beetles are phytophagous...
Nov 12, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Updated 24/03/2020 Cape Town – A recent molecular genetic study has revealed hidden cryptic species within a known forest gecko from the east coast of South Africa – the Pondo flat gecko. Stellenbosch University MSc student Theo Busschau’s findings suggest that the...
Nov 11, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Pretoria – The South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) in partnership with the Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP) are hosting a R and QGIS data visualization workshop for postgraduate students. Course content: Basic...
Nov 8, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – The South African Node of GBIF plays a key role in the mobiIization of biodiversity data in the country for scientific research, planning, policy and decision making outcomes. In support of this, one of the key strategic objectives of the SANBI-GBIF...
Oct 17, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Pretoria – A new scholarship and alumni programme – CLAPafrica (Climate research Alumni and Postdocs) – has been created for postdocs in the field of climate change and alumni of German funding initiatives. The overall aim of the programme is to...
Oct 11, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Pretoria – Natural history collections represent an incredibly rich resource of samples for DNA barcode library building, yet many challenges preclude efficient sampling of these collections including permit requirements, sample selection and DNA quality. The...
Oct 10, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – A recent FBIP-funded workshop will go down as the first dedicated workshop on marine parasite diversity and its use in applied fisheries research in Africa. The workshop focused on the current state of knowledge of marine parasite biodiversity in...
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...
