2012 News
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28 December 2012The Global Biodiversity Information Facility is currently advertising two opportunities relevant to researchers...
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20 December 2012BGIS is glad to announce that it has added three new tools to its interactive maps. Add...
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12 December 2012SANBI's updated Biodiversity Advisor is easy to navigate, with new content areas and an easy-to-use look and feel....
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11 December 2012Kirstenbosch (one of the South African National Biodiversity Institute’s 9 Botanical Gardens) is known around the...
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30 November 2012The Biodiversity GIS unit will be retiring the Land-Use Decision Support (LUDS) tool. For many BGIS users the LUDS tool...
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15 November 2012Growing up with drive-ins, many South Africans are familiar to the concept of open air cinemas. The Galileo however...
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14 November 2012These big bugs can be seen at the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden. Fortunately they are not alive, but a...
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09 November 2012Preparations are underway for this event which will take place from 29 August to 15 September 2013 and artists are...
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09 November 2012Ernst van Jaarsveld has named a new cliff-dwelling aloe endemic to the upper sandstone cliffs of the Drakensberg...
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07 November 2012This event with the theme “What is in Your Garden?” took place at Bishopscourt, the residence of the Archbishop. ...
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05 November 2012The BGIS unit has added the following ESRI base layers to the Municipal Biodiversity Summaries and Plan Index...
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31 October 2012Hard to believe that just on 100 years ago the beautiful walkways that we meander along, the exceptional displays and...
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28 October 2012This was a first of its kind, to empower local government practitioners with the available tools to standardise,...
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25 October 2012
SANBI's Biodiversity Information Management team is currently at work on the changes which they hope to implement...
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12 October 2012This is no mean feat considering that this was a verdict of ‘experts’ consisting of horticulturists and administrators...
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05 October 2012
Kirstenbosch is a name that resonates round the world as the home of a uniquely rich flora in a setting of unsurpassed...
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02 October 2012Budu Manaka and Mahlodi Tau of SANBI Grasslands introduced the course and sketched the biodiversity and programme...
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14 September 2012On the 7th September 2012, Anthony Hitchcock, Nursery Manager of Kirstenbosch, returned a very special plant to...
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11 September 2012The Custodians of Rare and Endangered Wildflowers (CREW), a programme executed through the South African National...
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06 September 2012An Honorary Associate Professorship in the Zoology Department, University of Cape Town has been awarded to Dr...
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