The Great Southern Bioblitz (GSB) is just 55 days away! We are excited to have 5 cities, 6 regions, 1 […]
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South African woman holds wild spinach (Source: Google […]
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Rare Chapman’s pygmy chameleon (Rhampholeon chapmanorum) long feared to have gone extinct, has been rediscovered in the rainforest in southern […]
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Cape Town’s Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is renowned as the most beautiful garden in Africa and the first botanic garden […]
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From 1 to 25 July 2021, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is hosting its annual Winter Wonders Special. Children 17 years […]
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Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden presents: Seeing the Invisible – an augmented reality (AR) art exhibition. The exhibition opens as one […]
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National Zoological Garden’s (NZG) ZooClub members, Sthobiso Mtshweni and Golden Mthimunye, from Ndzundza Mabhoko Secondary School in Mpumalanga, each got […]
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Science shows us that one of the key factors driving the accelerated decline of biodiversity is the invasion of alien […]
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Biodiversity is the living fabric of our planet. It underpins human wellbeing in the present and in the future, and […]
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Researchers have uncovered three new ecologically important South African coralline algal species erroneously passing under the Japanese species name, Spongites […]
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Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, in collaboration with the Botanical Society of South Africa, Table Mountain National Park […]
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The South African National Biodiversity Institute’s (SANBI) Annual Student Research Day looked a little different this year. The two day […]
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One of the key outcomes of the Biodiversity and Land Use (BLU) project is to ensure that pressure on biodiversity […]
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It feels like we just started the year yet we are at the end of the first quarter of 2021 […]
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The Sustainable African Forest Assurance Scheme (SAFAS) – Making forest certification effective for all scales of forestry The Sustainable African […]
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