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The Natural Science Collections Facility is a network of South African institutions holding natural science collections, established as part of the Department of Science & Technology’s Research Infrastructure Roadmap and co-ordinated by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI). Participating institutions are committed to collaborating to achieve the following objectives:
Collections secured and accessible physically and virtually for research
Data from specimens in collections accessible and used for managing collections, research and decision-making
Research on collections and associated data addresses issues of national and global relevance
Collections and associated research provide services to identify natural science specimens for a range of stakeholders including in the agriculture, health, environmental management and academic sectors
Latest News
Call for Nominations | South African National Plant Checklist Committee
SANBI is calling for nominations for members to serve on the SA Plant Checklist Committee. They are looking for nominations of non-SANBI plant taxonomists to serve on the committee. Please distribute this call to botanists that you know. Nomination forms are to be...
Specify Training Session & Workbench Workshop
Dr Ian Engelbrecht will be running the Specify Training Session and Specify Workbench Workshop this coming March. Details below: Specify Training Session: 3 March 2022, 9am - 4pm This is a refresher course on Specify basics: data capture, queries, loans and labels It...
The Shark and Ray Protection Project
A bigeyed sixgill shark (Hexanchus nakamurai) investigating the bait. Dr Elodie Heyns-Veale, KZN Museum At the end of November 2021, a group of scientists from around South Africa met on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal to determine the distribution of sharks...
New species described from South African collections
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Use of Collections
Shale Gas Exploration SEA
Barcode of Wildlife Project
Red List Assessments
Virtual Museum
The NSCF aims to increase the accessibility and use of natural science collections for research and also to secure collections.
One mechanism of achieving both these objectives is to establish a “virtual museum” which will take the form of detailed images of important specimens such as types, and to also provide digital access to documents such as historical field notes, old catalogue books and accession registers and other documents related to the collections. Over the next two years we will initiate a project to digitise specimens and important documents and to make these available online. We also aim to show some of the collection store rooms online to provide a sense of the scope and scale of these for the public who rarely have the chance to see these hidden treasures.
