Update by Marilize Greyling, project manager The new year has kicked off with a bang promising a fruitful year for biodiversity surveys and research for the FBIP Waterberg project. In the month of January, the project will see flora, arachnid, arthropod, mammal, and...
In June 2021 the FBIP profiled Brian du Preez, who is currently completing his PhD at the University of Cape Town. Brian received postgraduate funding from the FBIP programme. A recent post on Brian’s Facebook page details a breakthrough not only for his PhD...
It’s spawning season and approximately 1 million fish eggs have just been released into the surf near Cape Padrone on the South East coast of South Africa. After a few days, the first egg hatches – larvae need to fend for themselves amid countless sea...
About 3500 years ago the ancient Egyptians revered the dung beetle (Scarabaeus sacer) as a symbol of the Egyptian god Ra, who rolled the sun across the sky each day, “transforming bodies and souls”. The belief came to life in nature as Egyptians associated the dung...
Pretoria – The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) has just published a new coffee table book on South African animals at risk of extinction. The authors hope to awaken conservation consciousness and environmental awareness. One of the authors...
