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Environmental authorisation: In terms of Regulation 25 of the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2014, as ammended. Infrastructure developments in the […]
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Dense growth of invasive alien plants dry out water catchment drops the water levels in rivers and increases fire risk. […]
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Wetlands scrub pollutants out of the water through various natural processes, making these systems invaluable allies when dealing with water […]
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Rooibos tea grows wild in the Fynbos of the Suid Bokkeveld, and small scale tea farmers harvest it for a […]
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A fact sheet on ecological infrastructure. Category: Biodiversity lists, External documents, Policy documents, Reports, Resources, SANBI biodiversity series, SANBI corporate […]
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Losing healthy catchments upriver can have devastating consequences for built infrastructure further downstream, due to flooding. The study calls for […]
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How a healthy river system cleans up effluent and improves water quality to the economically critical Midmar Dam. Category: ResourcesAuthors: […]
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User guide for ArcView 3.x extensions written for SANBI purposes, but that would be useful to many other users. Include […]
Continue readingInstructions for using a spell checker of South African botanical, mycological, zoological, biodiversity and physical feature names for spell checking
This gives instructions on how to install and use the botanical, zoological and physical feature name dictionary files (SANBISpellBot.dic, SANBISpellZooOther.dic, […]
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Continue readingBiomes of South Africa as in Mucina, Rutherford & Powrie 2007, Mucina & Rutherford 2011.
A downloadable image of the biomes map as contained on page 33 of Mucina, L. & Rutherford, M.C. (eds) Reprint […]
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Information about plant pollinators in South Africa. Category: Resources Authors: Poole C Published 2014 by South African National Biodiversity Institute© South African National […]
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Importance of eucalyptus to beekeepers as bee forage Category: Resources Authors: Poole, C Published 2014 by South African National Biodiversity Institute© South […]
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Importance of indigenous plants to honeybees. Category: Resources Authors: Poole C Published 2014 by South African National Biodiversity Institute© South African National […]
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