- National Biodiversity Assessment: The National Biodiversity Assessment (NBA) is a collaborative effort to synthesise the best available science on South Africa’s biodiversity to inform policy, support decision-making across multiple sectors, and contribute to national development priorities.
- 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.
- Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): Areas of coastline or ocean that are specially protected for the benefit of people and nature.
- POSA: Plants of southern Africa: an online checklist provides access to plant names and floristic details for southern African plant species.
- 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.
- 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.