May 25, 2021 | Events, Latest
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May 25, 2021 | Events, Latest
The National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) will be hosting a Discussion Forum on plant health in South Africa – threats to biosecurity, biodiversity and food security. The event will be held on Zoom, on 10 and 11 June 2021. Topics include detecting and...
May 25, 2021 | Events, Latest
SASSB wants to hear about your systematics research! The Southern African Society for Systematic Biology is hosting a webinar series based on systematic research. The webinar will take two hours and will be held on the First Thursday of the month at 16:00. The first...
May 25, 2021 | Collection Management Course, Implementation, Latest, Manual
Registrations have closed We are happy to announce that we have 75 participants in the Collection Management Course. A briefing session was held on 19 May, as well as the first webinar for the course, covering collection ethics, chapter 9 of the Collection Management...
May 24, 2021 | Events, Forums, Iconic Specimens, Latest
David Allan, Photographic Competition Winner: The most iconic specimen I describe the Dodo Skeleton as a first-hand view back into a lost past. It is one of the two most complete skeletons of the Dodo anywhere in the world. Did you know? Dodos were a type of pigeon....
May 21, 2021 | Latest, Uncategorized, Value of collections articles
We currently have a good working knowledge of the reptile and amphibian species found in Free State Province, South Africa. However, to a large extent this is based mainly on surveys conducted in the 1970s (De Waal 1978, 1980a,b). This means that our current...
May 11, 2021 | Value of collections articles
Over the last few years, members of the Arachnology unit of the Agricultural Research Council – Plant Health and Protection have been working closely with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) Threatened Species Unit to evaluate all the South...
May 10, 2021 | Implementation, Latest, Manual
