Aug 21, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Presenter: M. Kgatla – SANBI Pretoria – Proper planning for biodiversity conservation requires the support of quality and reliable primary data. The FBIP has been funding research in South Africa specifically for generating primary data, including...
Aug 21, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Presenter: S. Willows-Munro – Conservation Genetics Lab, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal Pretoria – Metabarcoding is a new method of rapid biodiversity assessment that combines two technologies: DNA-based identification (DNA barcoding)...
Aug 21, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Presenters: L. Monda & A-L. Fourie – National Museum of Kenya & SANBI Pretoria – The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. Anne-Lise Fourie addresses...
Aug 21, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Presenter: K. Naicker – Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Pretoria – The overwhelming evidence of the IPBES Global Assessment, from a wide range of different fields of knowledge, presents a dire scenario: 1 million plant and animal...
Aug 21, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Presenter: U. Rust – Department of Science and Innovation Pretoria – The recent update of SA’s science, technology and innovation (STI) policy, more than 20 years after the 1996 White Paper on Science and Technology, was prompted by rapid...
