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Karoo BioGaps Project wraps up

Jun 18, 2020 | News

By Zimkita Mavumengwana & Dane McDonald Cape Town – The FBIP and SANBI is pleased to announce that the Karoo BioGaps Project has come to an end. The aim of the Karoo BioGaps Project was to assemble foundational species data in the Karoo region. This was done...

FBIP soil microbiome project: ‘piece of the puzzle’ or ‘holy grail’?

Jun 15, 2020 | News

Key points: Diverse soil microbiome communities enhances soil resilience The main objective of this FBIP project is to document soil microbial diversity Understanding the soil microbiome is a crucial element in ‘smart farming’ Benefits from cultivating the soil...

SnapshotSafari-SA brings ‘titans’ of science together in a single project

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...

GBIF announces call for sub-Saharan Africa projects

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...

Extension of cut-off dates for applications for funding – FBIP Concept Notes for Large Integrated Projects and FBIP Small Grants

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...

Eastern Cape forests FBIP project in focus on Forests Day 2020

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...

FBIP celebrates World Wildlife Day 2020 with flagship projects

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...

Budget 2020: All you need to know about Mboweni’s ‘Totem Plant’

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...

SONA2020: We need to highlight the “links” to biodiversity

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....

FBIP-SAEON 2020 workshop gives students crucial data skills

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...