The 16th National Biodiversity Planning Forum will be held from 4 to 7 June 2019 at Alpine Heath Resort, Northern […]
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by Dane McDonald | Feb 8, 2019 Pretoria – The Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP) is offering a Proposal Writing Workshop to be held at […]
Continue readingMore TagManaged bees versus wild bees? It’s not that simple in South Africa
There’s widespread concern about the global decline of honey bees and the associated loss of pollination services. The honey bee is the […]
Continue readingMore TagBiodiversity Stewardship Community enhances capacity
The Biodiversity Stewardship community of practice has been focusing on enhancing the capacity and capabilities of biodiversity stewardship practitioners in […]
Continue readingMore TagSIZA 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 […]
Continue readingMore TagSouth 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 […]
Continue readingMore TagSouth 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 […]
Continue readingMore TagEnhancing 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 […]
Continue readingMore TagHidden 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 […]
Continue readingMore TagSANBI 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 […]
Continue readingMore TagMainstreaming 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 […]
Continue readingMore TagWoodland 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 […]
Continue readingMore TagAlien 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 […]
Continue readingMore TagSystematics of geophytic Othonna
By Luvo Magoswana Othonna L. (Asteraceae: Senecioneae: Othonninae) is a genus of some 120 species concentrated in the Greater Cape […]
Continue readingMore TagRural 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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