Aug 21, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Presenter: D. Raimondo – SANBI Pretoria – The Karoo is seen as an important development area for South Africa and there needs to be responsible decision-making around developments such as shale gas exploration, farming, mining, renewable energy...
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
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...
Aug 20, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Pretoria – The FBIP postgraduate student forum has been shifted to the forefront of the main Joint Biodiversity Information Management & Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme Forum with many lessons being learnt. SANBI Chief Director for...
