Dec 13, 2018 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Updates by Mika Vermeulen It was incredibly exciting news when we found a camera trap image of a leopard in the Karoo National Park – the first record for this National Park. The Snapshot Safari – South Africa study has funding until the end of 2020 and the camera...
Dec 5, 2018 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
The FBIP Karoo BioGaps ‘mammal team’ has wrapped up their operations for the project, according to team member Zoe Woodgate. Woodgate says the last two years have been filled with fieldwork, data processing and analysis. Woodgate together with Nadine...
Nov 29, 2018 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Two new wasp species have been named in honor of late South African statesman Nelson Mandela and the Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The two wasps, described by the study authors as ‘two entomological gems’, were found in the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of...
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...
Oct 26, 2018 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – Two recent papers resulting from the Eastern Cape Forest Fauna Project have uncovered ‘hidden’ invertebrate species, highlighting higher levels of diversity in the region than originally thought. The project, which is one of the Large Integrated Projects...
