The Comrades Butterfly… BDI interviews citizen scientist Luelle Watts
Luelle Watts is an amazing woman and LepiMAPper extraordinaire. She has snapped and mapped 1632 LepiMAP records to date, all while training for South AfricaR...
Author: Megan Loftie-Eaton
Megan is our communications, social media and citizen science coordinator. Prior to her work for the BDI, she coordinated OdonataMAP, the Atlas of African Odonata. A citizen science project run by the Animal Demography Unit, University of Cape Town and funded by the JRS Biodiversity Foundation. She also coordinated LepiMAP, which is the Atlas on African Lepidoptera. Megan is passionate about biodiversity conservation. She is a firm believer in the power of citizen science and getting the public involved in nature conservation.
Spreading the Seeds of Light
On Saturday, 20 July 2019, I was lucky enough to join the Saturday Girls for their Career Guidance Day at the New Dawn Centre in Acornhoek, Mpumalanga. I was as...
Africa is home… BDI interviews citizen scientist Chris Meyer
How did you become a citizen scientist? What was the catalyst that got you going? Having spent my early years growing up on a farm in Zimbabwe, then spending ma...
Passionate about Nigerian birds and butterflies… BDI interviews citizen scientist Abubakar S. Ringim
Abubakar Surajo Ringim obtained his MSc in Conservation Biology from the University of Dar es Salaam. He is a keen bird atlaser and BioMAPper and he is actively...
BDInsight – July 2019
It has been an exciting few months at the BDI. From our first bird ringing expedition to the birth of PanGoPod Alpha, and everything in between. We are grateful...
How to create a species distribution map in the Virtual Museum
Today, we provide the recipe for creating a species distribution map for a butterfly, the Painted Lady Vanessa cardui, directly off the current and live data in...
How to submit records to the Virtual Museum
Do you love all things biodiversity? Do you love photography? Do you love exploring new places? And do you love nature and the great outdoors? Then you are a ke...
Year of the Dragon – OdonataMAP records of note for 2018 – PART THREE
John Wilkinson, one of the most hard working members on the OdonataMAP expert panel, has put together a terrific summary of the best OdonataMAP records for 2018...
Year of the Dragon – OdonataMAP records of note for 2018 – PART TWO
John Wilkinson, one of the most hard working members on the OdonataMAP expert panel, has put together a terrific summary of the best records for 2018 for each p...