Feb 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
Call for information: List of Research Projects, Expertise and Equipment At the recent Scientist Engagement Session held in December 2020 the hub was asked to set up a shared database of current research projects, taxonomic expertise and available equipment to enable...
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Feb 2, 2021 | Events, Webinars
The new Citizen Science Hour for Biodiversity Collections webinar series is dedicated to catalyzing excellence in citizen science that engages biodiversity collections. Citizen science is public engagement in scientific research, and it has the valuable potential to...
Feb 2, 2021 | Opportunities
Due to the Covid-19 crisis, the 2020 conference has been delayed, and will be a virtual event. The virtual conference will be held in early March 2021, using the Zoom platform. Our facilities allow us to invite 20 people from the Eastern Cape to attend in person....
Feb 2, 2021 | Opportunities
I am offering a training course which will introduce you to the Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT), a scheme that was adopted by the IUCN as an official Standard in 2020. The course will take place online from 12-14 April 2021 – it is a full...
Feb 2, 2021 | Events, Webinars
The Manual Development Webinar was held on 20 January 2021 and was attended by 44 people and according to the survey results (screenshot below), the attendants found it useful and expressed appreciation for the information shared by the panelists. Click to...
Feb 2, 2021 | Latest, New Species
As part of discovery and exploration of the extremely species rich, yet largely unknown wasp fauna in Africa, we recently described a number of new species of parasitoid wasps in the superfamilies Chalcidoidea and Ichneumonoidea, including the first records of two...
Jul 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Feb 20, 2019 | New Species
A new species of tarantula (the Mega Horned Baboon Tarantula, Ceratogyrus attonitifer) is described in a paper published in the open-access journal African Invertebrates by Drs John Midgley and Ian Engelbrecht. The spider was discovered by Dr John Midgley...
