Mar 18, 2022 | News
Adapted from an article by Pieter Bester Original article first published in SANBI Gazette The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) National Herbarium – Pretoria – is a collaborator on the Waterberg Biodiversity Project and during...
Feb 23, 2022 | News
Somewhere in the deep recesses of the Iziko Museum in Cape Town, there is a small glass jar containing a dark, lifeless, spherical creature with eight protruding legs. The jar is two-thirds filled with the preserving chemical – ethanol – and is plugged with a wad of...
Jan 25, 2022 | News
Cape Town – The FBIP Waterberg Biodiversity Project’s freshwater fish team has added new biodiversity knowledge to our understanding of the Waterberg region through its discovery of two species not previously recorded in the Welgevonden Game Reserve. The...
Dec 10, 2021 | News
Like many people, 24-year-old Nkosinathi Ndaba had the idea that all microorganisms are bad germs that present a threat. However, his views shifted in his second year at varsity while taking a major in microbiology towards his undergraduate degree in biochemistry. “I...
Dec 3, 2021 | News
Dr Charl Deacon remembers the sense of awe he had during his first encounter with an insect as if it was yesterday – he was very young and it was a “giant stick insect”. “They are quite rare now,” he says with the benefit of the knowledge that comes with many years...
