- Biodiversity Advisor: Helps people to find biodiversity information from other SANBI websites.
- PlantZAfrica: SANBI website providing information on popular southern African plants and related topics.
- New POSA: Provides access to all SANBI scientific databases: over 1.6 million occurrence records and taxonomic details for over 22 000 species. This database has not been updated recently.
- National Zoological Garden: The National Zoological Garden of South Africa is the largest zoo in the country and the only one with national status.
- Invasive Alien Plant alert: A list of plants features in the Invasive Alien Plant Alert series together with a list of invasive alien Species.
- iNaturalist: Your gateway to sharing and identifying southern African biodiversity.
- Red List of South Africa plants: Online version of SANBI’s Red List of South African plants
- BGIS (Biodiversity GIS): The main SANBI resource for GIS with interactive mapping, biodiversity data, training and legislation.
- Vegetation map of South Africa: An interactive map showing vegetation types of South Africa. Use Internet Explorer to access it.
- POSA: Plants of southern Africa: an online checklist provides access to plant names and floristic details for southern African plant species. This database has not been updated for some time so please check names with your local herbarium or on the International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org
- EAT environmental indicators: This is the database that stores the SA indicators for biodiversity reporting purposes
- Land Degradation Report: National Review of Land Degradation in South Africa.
- Collection permits: How to obtain legal permits to collect South Africa’ natural genetic material
- SANBI biodiversity research tools: Describes tools for GIS and other uses, how they can be used, and how to access them.
- Species Status database: This is the databases that stores all the National Environmental Management Biodiversity Act (NEMBA) listed species.
- FBIP: The Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme is funded by the Department of Science and Technology. SANBI and the NRF jointly manages the programme.
- Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): This website was created to showcase the MPAs of South Africa and to share the animals and ecosystems they protect and the benefits they provide to South Africans.
- Natural Science Collections Facility: The NSCF is a virtual Facility, comprised of a network of institutions that hold natural science collections that are accessible to external researchers.