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...
The FBIP Waterberg Biodiversity Project is gaining momentum as the invertebrate and herpetology teams arrived to carry out sampling this week… Invertebrates Dr Tharina Bird and Prof Lorenzo Prendini arrived at the Waterberg on Sunday. Dr Bird is the curator of...
At the end of November 2021, the FBIP said farewell to its programme coordinator, Dr Lita Pauw. Lita served the FBIP for seven years from 2015 and said she is currently enjoying a self-declared ‘sabbatical’. Former FBIP programme manager, Prof Michelle Hamer, who...
Cape Town – The FBIP Waterberg Biodiversity Project’s freshwater fish team has added new biodiversity knowledge to our understanding of the Waterberg region through its discovery of two species not previously recorded in the Welgevonden Game Reserve. The...
Cape Town – The COVID-19 pandemic took its toll on students when it hit the world in early 2020, with many postgraduate students having to extend their studies, and some even losing all hope. FBIP-funded postdoctoral fellow Dr Tersia Conradie says it was “not easy”,...
Hendré van Rensburg, like most people, did not grow up telling people that he wanted to study worms. Quite the contrary. His younger self was convinced that he was cut out for engineering; he would use science to create. Consequently, his school years were focused on...
Like many people, 24-year-old Nkosinathi Ndaba had the idea that all microorganisms are bad germs that present a threat. However, his views shifted in his second year at varsity while taking a major in microbiology towards his undergraduate degree in biochemistry. “I...
