About 3500 years ago the ancient Egyptians revered the dung beetle (Scarabaeus sacer) as a symbol of the Egyptian god Ra, who rolled the sun across the sky each day, “transforming bodies and souls”. The belief came to life in nature as Egyptians associated the dung...
Pretoria – The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) has just published a new coffee table book on South African animals at risk of extinction. The authors hope to awaken conservation consciousness and environmental awareness. One of the authors...
Map: SANBI When you look at a map of the vegetation of South Africa, the right half of the map is nearly dominated by one particular biome – grasslands. The grassland biome covers nearly a third of South Africa’s land area (339 237km2). Grasslands might bring up...
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...
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...
