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Southern Africa excels in international Great Southern Bioblitz 2023

22/12/202302/02/2024

The Great Southern Bioblitz (GSB), like the City Nature Challenge, is an annual citizen science event. During the GSB southern […]

Visit our national botanical gardens this summer

12/12/202312/12/2023

‘Good for the body. Very good for the soul’ The 11 national botanical gardens across South Africa are inviting people […]

BIRDIE Platform Launches to Unravel the World of Wetlands and Waterbirds

07/12/202311/12/2023

Image: Doug Harebottle In an era marked by a growing need for ecological data on freshwater ecosystems, the South African […]

The Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts are back

24/11/202301/12/2023

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town kicks off its 2023/2024 series of Summer Sunset Concerts on Sunday, December 3 […]

SANBI publishes South Africa’s first report on the impacts of GMOs on biodiversity

03/11/2023

The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) has published its first assessment of the impact on biodiversity by genetically modified […]

Introductory workshop: Improving spatial ecological condition data for southern Africa

25/10/2023

A virtual meeting via Microsoft Teams Why this workshop: This is a virtual workshop to introduce interested parties to the […]

Unleashing Innovation: The NASA Space App Hackathon

21/09/2023

On October 7-8 2023, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and South African National Botanical Institute (SANBI), along with local […]

Course on DNA barcode data in BOLD and GBIF

28/08/202328/08/2023

GBIF Phylogeny Explorer debuts on Legume Data Portal

28/08/202328/08/2023

The colonial legacy of herbaria

19/06/2023

The past is a foreign country

19/06/2023

URP Climate Change Indaba: Resilience, lessons and rewards

19/06/202328/08/2023

After a successful eight-year run, the UMngeni Resilience Project (URP) is in its final stages of implementation. The project, formerly […]

URP partners step out in style to celebrate achievements

19/06/202326/06/2023

Over a hundred invited guests representing communities, civil society organisations, government officials, academics, researchers and scientists from various institutions stepped […]