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...
Jul 29, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Updated 23/03/2020 Cape Town – A ‘fine-scale’ study on velvet worms has raised the flag for better protection of South Africa’s threatened forest habitats. According to Prof Savel Daniels and honours student Aaron Barnes from the University of Stellenbosch, South...
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 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...
