Aug 22, 2022 | News
Original article courtesy of SAEON SeaMap is a brand new South African marine project, recently awarded to SAEON’s Egagasini Node through the Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP). Safiyya Sedick’s key focus in earlier roles has been describing new...
Jul 26, 2022 | News
R20 million per year. This is the estimated crop loss and control costs caused by fruit flies in the Western Cape alone. Moreover, a quarantine ban on the export of South African fruit due to the presence of fruit flies can be devastating to the economic welfare of...
Jul 11, 2022 | News
The unique freshwater biodiversity of South Africa is under increasing pressure from multiple impacts including global climate change, habitat degradation, hydrological modification through excessive water abstraction, as well as the spread of invasive species. The...
Jun 17, 2022 | News
Featured image: a floristic survey of hummock dunes at Brandfontein near Cape Agulhas in the Western Cape. The waves broke with a thunderous, yet hollow thump that I felt in my chest. It left me feeling exhausted and energised at the same time. There are...
Mar 29, 2022 | News
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...
