The Biodiversity Stewardship community of practice has been focusing on enhancing the capacity and capabilities of biodiversity stewardship practitioners in […]
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SIZA achieved a hundred percent equivalence in SAI FSA benchmark
SIZA, the South African sustainability standard for social and environmental assurance, is the first to reach FULL (100%) equivalence when […]
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South Africa’s biodiversity tax incentive receives special commendation at Pathfinder Award 2018
On 18 November, Birdlife South Africa’s work on the country’s first biodiversity tax incentive, which provides financial sustainability for landowners […]
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South African forestry certification standard achieves PEFC endorsement
The recently developed independent national forestry certification system for South Africa was recently endorsed by the Programme for Endorsement of […]
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Enhancing partnerships to conserve and expand the Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve
Restoration experts from throughout South Africa congregated over three days to participate in a technical working group workshop to develop […]
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Hidden diversity uncovered in FBIP Eastern Cape forest project
Two recent papers resulting from the Eastern Cape Forest Fauna Project have uncovered ‘hidden’ invertebrate species, highlighting higher levels of […]
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SANBI hosts 4th Annual Biodiversity Science and Policy Advice Symposium
On the 20th of September, The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) hosted its 4th Annual Biodiversity Science and Policy […]
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Mainstreaming biodiversity into land-use regulation and management at the municipal scale
29 June 2016 Municipalities have an increasingly significant role to play in biodiversity conservation as part of their mandate to […]
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Woodland expansion in South African grassy biomes based on satellite observations
By Skowno A, Thompson M, Hiestermann J, Ripley B, West A G, Bond W. Woody plant encroachment in South Africa’s […]
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Alien ecosystem engineer gaining ground at Cape estuary
By Dane McDonald A highly invasive ‘ecosystem engineer’ is gaining ground at Zandvlei Estuary in Cape Town, a study linked to […]
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Systematics of geophytic Othonna
By Luvo Magoswana Othonna L. (Asteraceae: Senecioneae: Othonninae) is a genus of some 120 species concentrated in the Greater Cape […]
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Rural Citizen Scientists Birding Project
By David Maphisa and Theresa Sethusa Citizen science projects consists of volunteer ordinary citizens of any country, play a critical […]
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Instant access to Africa’s Biodiversity Research: Biodiversity Heritage Library Africa
By Anne-Lise Fourie The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) was formed in 2006 as a consortium of ten natural history, botanical garden, […]
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International Citizen Science Day
By Ismail Ebrahim This year the South African Citizen Science network joined the international community by celebrating International Citizen Science […]
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Holistic capacity development through African Biodiversity Challenge
By Matthew Child The biodiversity informatics community has rightly spent a lot of resources on developing data management skills across […]
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