Jan 19, 2020 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – A team of researchers are set to explore the uncharted territories of life in the agricultural soil microbiome. The team received funding from the Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP) to conduct the Large Scale Project. In an...
Dec 19, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Pretoria – The Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP) is offering a number of bursaries for postgraduate studies in the 2020 academic year. 6-12 Honours bursaries at R60,000 each (funding for one year) 6-12 Masters bursaries at R90,000 per year...
Nov 11, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Pretoria – The South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) in partnership with the Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP) are hosting a R and QGIS data visualization workshop for postgraduate students. Course content: Basic...
Nov 8, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – The South African Node of GBIF plays a key role in the mobiIization of biodiversity data in the country for scientific research, planning, policy and decision making outcomes. In support of this, one of the key strategic objectives of the SANBI-GBIF...
Sep 17, 2019 | BioGaps, News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – A recent study has shown that mammal data alone is not a good indicator for making decisions about where fracking could be carried out without impacting on biodiversity, yet the data should form a key part of the baseline data from the larger Karoo BioGaps...
