FBIP Doctoral Students: Zwannda Nethavhani
Zwannda considers herself as a goal-orientated person, originally from Venda (Thohoyandou) in Limpopo Province. She was awarded BSc in Botany & Zoology and Honours in Zoology at the University of Venda, and pursued a Master’s degree in Zoology at the same...
WATCH: Forests – Exploring South Africa’s smallest biome
Cape Town – Experts believe that range declines in mobile taxa like birds and bats might mean bad news for less mobile animals like land snails, shrews, and the like. Stellenbosch University’s Prof Mike Cherry led a team of researchers and students to...
FBIP Doctoral Students: Lucan Page
Lucan has lived and grown up in a little beach town called Gordon’s Bay, Cape Town, his entire life. Getting to his current field of study has been a process. He started his studies in human biology where he majored in Genetics and Human Physiology, he then did...
Emerging tick-borne pathogen identified in Mpumalanga
Cape Town – Residents of rural communities in South Africa face a barrage of problems from high poverty rates, low access to clean drinking water, a high burden of chronic disease, inadequate access to quality health care, poor transportation, a dependence on...
FBIP Doctoral Students: Sbongiseni Xolo
Sbongiseni is an innovative ecologist with a sound scientific philosophy who believes that his qualifications, dedication and dynamic personality will take him a step closer to his desired career pathway. He has developed a strong interest in the interaction between...
FBIP Doctoral Students: Brian du Preez
Career ambitions: Cape legume systematist and botanical explorer Brian reigns from George in the Western Cape where he started off studying for a BTech in Nature Conservation. He recalls always having an interest in plants, but his passion grew when a botany lecturer...
Call for FBIP Small Grant applications now open
The call for FBIP Small Grant applications (Review period 2) is now open. The primary focus of the FBIP is to generate, mobilize, co-ordinate and make accessible foundational biodiversity knowledge in line with the needs of society, the Department of Science &...
Waterberg Mountain Complex in focus as FBIP awards R4m Grant
Cape Town – The Waterberg Mountain Complex (WMC) in the Limpopo Province will be the focus of a “multidisciplinary foundational baseline biodiversity data gathering project” after a University of Pretoria researcher was awarded Foundational Biodiversity Information...