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Kirstenbosch receives TripAdvisor Global Top Destination award

04/08/2022

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is awarded a TripAdvisor Global Top Destination Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden has received a TripAdvisor Travellers’ […]

Minister Barbara Creecy visits the National Zoological Garden

04/08/2022

On Thursday 4 August 2022, the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment Ms Barbara Creecy, joined by board members […]

Minister Creecy assesses scientific services at National Zoological Garden

03/08/202203/08/2022

The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Ms Barbara Creecy to assess the scientific services of the National Zoological […]

SANBI pursues options for retirement of Charley, the African elephant at the Pretoria National Zoological Garden

29/07/202229/07/2022

The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) would like to announce the decision to pursue options for the retirement of […]

FBIP student fighting fruit fly infestations with Trojan horse bacteria

27/07/2022

SA’s succulent plants experience unprecedented rates of decline

22/07/2022

Pic: Domitilla Raimondo IUCN Red List assessment reveals shocking collapse of South Africa’s wild succulent plant populations South Africa’s succulent […]

New biodiversity project to fill knowledge gaps in SA’s freshwater systems

13/07/2022

R300-million set aside to ensure unemployed graduates are incubated in the environmental and biodiversity sector

27/06/202229/06/2022

Environmental and biodiversity organisations are invited to participate in a R300-million government-sponsored funded human capacity development programme, Groen Sebenza Phase […]

First-ever successful rooting of SA’s endangered ‘Yellow Peeling Plain Tree’

21/06/2022

First-ever successful rooting of South African critically endangered ‘Yellow Peeling Plain Tree’ also known as Mutavhatsindi in Tshivenda The year […]

Holding it together: the Cape dune flora

20/06/202220/06/2022

A collaborative project to strengthen spatial biodiversity assessment, prioritisation and planning in southern Africa

08/06/2022

On 7 June 2022, in the presence of the French Ambassador to South Africa, SANBI signed a financial agreement with […]

Two decades of deep insights celebrated this World Oceans Day

07/06/202207/06/2022

On World Oceans Day 8 June 2022, South African National Biodiversity Institute marine scientist Prof Kerry Sink and her Deep […]

Minister Creecy launches Thohoyandou National Botanical Garden

23/05/202224/05/2022

Minister Barbara Creecy launches the Thohoyandou National Botanical Garden at the commemoration of International Day for Biodiversity 2022 The launch of […]