Jun 3, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Adapted from Stellenbosch University release – updated 27/03/2020 Stellenbosch – The uncontrolled harvesting of timber, bark and poles from indigenous forests in the Eastern Cape is having a negative impact on bird diversity, a new FBIP-funded study has...
Feb 20, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Pretoria – The Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP) invites interested parties to submit a proposal/s for organising and hosting training workshops in the foundational biodiversity field. Workshops must cover a topic aligned to the FBIP mandate...
Feb 8, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Pretoria – The Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP) is offering a Proposal Writing Workshop to be held at Pretoria, on Wednesday, 13 March 2019 as part of its Capacity Development Programme – the workshop is aimed at academics in the...
Feb 5, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
One would not usually associate high numbers of parasites with a healthy ecosystem, yet this is exactly what was shown by a study on frog ‘haemoparasites’ in KwaZulu-Natal. A parasite is an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and...
Nov 16, 2018 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Updated 22/03/2020 Cape Town – A new ‘pearl white’ freshwater crab species has been discovered in the ‘forgotten’ Eastern Cape forests of South Africa. Prof Savel Daniels, a molecular taxonomist at Stellenbosch University, says freshwater crabs are relatively well...
