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Citizen Science Week #1 from 19 to 27 September 2020: OdonataMAP in South Africa

Posted on 22/09/2020 by Les Underhill

OdonataMAP is the Odonata Atlas of Africa. OdonataMAP is one of the sections of the Virtual Museum. From September 2020, the project has been hosted jointly by ...

Archive/Biodiversity/Trip report

Winter BioMAPping and Botanizing in Venda

Posted on 22/09/2020 by Willem van der Merwe (edited by Megan Loftie-Eaton)

On Friday, 12 June 2020, my friend Ruan Stander and I embarked on a reptile-and-plant-biomapping expedition in Venda. Venda is a wonderful and wild region in no...

Archive/Biodiversity/BirdPix/Citizen Science/News/Virtual Museum

Citizen Science Week #1 from 19 to 27 September 2020: BirdPix in South Africa

Posted on 16/09/2020 by admin

The first Citizen Science Week of the 2020/2021 season starts this Saturday 19 September 2020, and runs to the end of the following weekend, Sunday 27 September...

Archive/Biodiversity/Citizen Science/LepiMAP/News/Virtual Museum

Fanie Rautenbach’s Great LepiMAP Challenge 2020/21

Posted on 02/09/2020 by Les Underhill

Fanie Rautenbach has worked his way through the LepiMAP records for South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, has identified data gaps, and is challenging us to fill...

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BDInsight – August 2020

Posted on 01/09/2020 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

Another month has flown by! We are heading into Spring here in the southern Hemisphere, although today feels more like Winter. It is rather chilly all over Sout...

21 records of Common Chaffinch in BirdPix
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Impacts of Rhodes on Biodiversity 2 : Common Chaffinch

Posted on 31/08/2020 by Les Underhill

The first blog in this series talked a bit about Cecil John Rhodes and his beliefs, which can can be summarized in this quote: “Remember that you are an E...

Archive/Biodiversity/Citizen Science/News/Virtual Museum

Impacts of Rhodes on Biodiversity 1 : Eastern Grey Squirrel

Posted on 22/08/2020 by Les Underhill

Cecil John Rhodes, who believed that the English were the best, introduced grey squirrels, from America, to his estate in Cape Town about 1900. This is the stor...

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Plants need protecting too

Posted on 19/08/2020 by Willem van der Merwe

South Africa has an amazing diversity of plants and animals.  Many people know and cherish the most visible and charismatic wildlife, such as rhinos, elephants,...

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BDInsight – July 2020

Posted on 01/08/2020 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

Life in lockdown has become almost normal. I, for one, have lost count of the number of days we’ve been in lockdown here in South Africa. We adapt to the ...

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BDInsight – June 2020

Posted on 01/07/2020 by Megan Loftie-Eaton

Another month has flown by, here in South Africa we are still under lockdown, but that has not deterred BioMAPpers from uploading all sorts of wonderful and int...

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