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28 March 2013Many of the best botanical gardens around the world house their own bonsai exhibits which adds a unique and...
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28 March 2013At the recent Biodiversity Careers Day at Kirstenbosch, thirteen schools and colleges each brought between 12...
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27 March 2013Chameleons are an excellent example of how organisms can be distributed across the globe through oceanic dispersal...
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26 March 2013 (All day)In a ground-breaking workshop held at Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden in February 2013, international organisations...
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14 March 2013“Water from the uMngeni catchment is the lifeblood that keeps the Durban economy going.” These were the words of...
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11 March 2013“The Buzz for Food”, which forms part of the capacity building and public awareness outputs of the Global Pollination...
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26 February 2013The following datasets have added to the BGIS website: National Invasive Alien Plant Survey Extent and density...
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20 February 2013This question was the central issue debated at the Dialogue on Ecological Infrastructure last year, which was featured...
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19 February 2013SABIF is delighted to host two biodiversity informatics courses in July run by the Biodiversity Informatics Training...
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14 February 2013SANBI, as well as the 32 partners of the Groen Sebenza programme, have received an unprecedented number of applications...
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31 January 2013Dr José Ferrer-Paris, a postdoctoral fellow at the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) has been...
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30 January 2013The marine component of the NBA2011 is now available from the BGIS website. The following marine datasets are...
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18 January 2013As part of the celebration of Kirstenbosch’s Centenary this year, designer David Davidson (best known as the co-...
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16 January 2013
The latest CAPE Fire dataset is available on the BGIS website. The dataset records all fires that have occurred on...
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14 January 2013
The South African National Biodiversity Institute is pleased to announce that it has embarked on a major skills...
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11 January 2013Kirstenbosch turns 100 years old in 2013, and so will some of its plants. We have consulted our record books and...
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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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